FWIW this is how I (lacking any scholarly apparatus) understood the image when I first read tR&tB as a teen, & it made complete sense. I pictured a larger glass globe, though, like unto the paperweights which seemed ubiquitous in thrift stores. The same mood seemed there in the last shot of "McCabe & Mrs. Miller", minus the translucency.
FWIW this is how I (lacking any scholarly apparatus) understood the image when I first read tR&tB as a teen, & it made complete sense. I pictured a larger glass globe, though, like unto the paperweights which seemed ubiquitous in thrift stores. The same mood seemed there in the last shot of "McCabe & Mrs. Miller", minus the translucency.