Others more quickly became aware of the need for another level of interpretation: "However, after a moment or two, the implied stage begins clearly to represent the world, and the actors, the world's population"; "On second thought, play metaphor-'all the world's a stage' -Life goes on in spite of quarreling, but it won't if the 'lighting' (moral? spiritual?) fails . . . Anyway, war, disagreement, etc., don't matter so much-so long as we still have the 'light' (sun-source of light-nature? God?).