Carlos Among the Candles

Everything starts out in the dark, always, and then as in every play the "curtain" is lifted revealing the beginning. Here in Stevens second, much shorter, play Carlos is revealed by a candle (a trend, yes).
Could this play's starting point commence without a curtain? I think so.
Anyways, Carlos says:
"How the solitude of this candle penetrates me! I light the candle in the darkness. It fills the darkness with solitude, which becomes my own." (615)
Fascinating how he describes the lit setting as solitude, as if when there's merely darkness the solitude is nonexistent. Light gives Carlos his own little bubble, and he takes advantage alright by dancing or more descriptively "(He sighs. After a pause he pirouettes, and then continues)" (616).
With more light the scene is vivified. Carlos lights a second candle and says:
"The solitude dissolves...The light of the two candles has a meaning different from the light of one..." (616)
When I read this bifocal vision popped into my head, except that the vision is not that of eyesight, but that each candlelight is itself an eye. Then Carlos finds more and more candles given the expanding light and "dissolving solitude". His thought process and dialogue development is interesting as more and more candles are added to the mix.
Note: each ellipsis below, only in the following quote, signifies Carlos lighting another candle and a brief break in script.
After lighting a third he says,
"...one more candle would turn this formative elegance into...suggestion of luxury into...the beginning of magnificence into...the beginning of splendor. Truly, I am a modern."
He dances around the room more given there is more room from more light and less solitude.
Next, after finishing his dance, is probably my favorite line in the play.
"To have changed so often and so much...Six candles burn like and adventure that has been completed. They are established. They are a city...six common candles...seven...Eight, nine, ten, eleven, twelve." (617)
He's losing all sense of solitude and gaining, maybe a glimpse of, freedom until tiptoeing to center stage. Slowly hereafter the candles are blown out, and another great line which I'll end ambiguously on is after he's blown out some of them and has, I believe, seven left.
Note: def: Pleiades(pl-dz, pl-) pl.n.

1. Greek Mythology The seven daughters of Atlas (Maia, Electra, Celaeno, Taygeta, Merope, Alcyone, and Sterope), who were metamorphosed into stars.

2. An open star cluster in the constellation Taurus, consisting of several hundred stars, of which six are visible to the naked eye.

From http://www.thefreedictionary.com/Pleiades

"It is like the six Pleiades, and the hidden one, that makes them seven.
(He blows out another candle.)
It is like the seven Pleiades, and the hidden one, that makes them six." (619)
Ha! Stars, of course. The sun is a star, eh, interesante.