The Little World

And the world is yours.

Put on your pyjamas, get a hot drink, settle down at the table, and draw up the Universe. It is not blasphemous – Someone Famous did it a long time ago…

Don’t draw a layout – that would be too committed – a table upon which you can move the various elements of the game. Chess with tracks and locomotives.

Already the table has changed twice; it will change again. The buildings that populate it are being moved about like walnut shells in a three-card-monte game and I really don’t care where the pea is…

This is playing trains at its best. Actually I dread getting to the point where the plan is perfect, because then I have to start implementing it. I would become the slave of my own driver…