Here are some questions that will help you figure out the meaning of the picture. After each question is the answer, and possibly some hints that will help you get there while letting you do some of the work. Look in the answer to 1 to see what the definitions of {A, B, ...} are. If you like doing things the easy way, go to the last answer to find out the meaning I intended.

1. What are the distinct objects in the scene? (Hint 1) (Answer)
2. What scene do those objects suggest? (Hint 1) (Hint 2) (Answer)
3. What do A & B also sort of look like? (Hint 1) (Hint 2) (Answer)
4. What are some of the pecularities of C? (Hint 1) (Answer)
5. So C is a _____________ (Answer)
6. What is the relation between C & D? (Hint 1) (Answer)
7. Using this, and what D looks like, what does D represent? (Hint 1) (Answer)
8. So what is the mapping of meanings in the picture? (Answer)
9. So what does the picture say? [This is the hard part] (Hint 1) (Hint 2) (Hint 3) (Answer)

Wasn't that fun?

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