Instead of describing a familiar reality with words, you can try to create a new, unfamiliar one. To start everything from scratch, to rewrite in one’s own way the natural sciences, historical chronicles, encyclopedias and primers, to become a creator, a demiurge - this is a glorious challenge for a being who himself was once created, invented, started for some reason from scratch and thrown into human life: will it float out? (Correct answer: unknown.) Some demiurges consider the text to be living flesh; it seems to them that the fabric of human existence is woven from the same material as books: from words. "In the beginning was the Word, wasn't it?" - they ask. And they conclude: “It is still unknown whether the Case followed him, or was it decided that it would do just as well?..” I, of course, am one of them. I once had the opportunity to knead more than one ton of clay with my own hands, but those days are long gone. Now I see inhabited worlds in my dreams, and in reality I collect copies of them from words. Like their creator, my worlds are imperfect and short-lived, but it's better than nothing. Much better. Before getting down to work, a novice demiurge should familiarize himself with the experience of his great predecessors, not because, of course, one demiurge can learn something from another. And just so as not to repeat myself. In fact, you will find a collection of reports on the creation of worlds under this bright cover. As befits the inhabited worlds, the works of our hands are quite imperfect, but quite beautiful and amazing. And you will also find some practical advice there for beginning demiurges. These are useful tips - as useful as advice can be. But the demiurges do not give each other harmful advice at all. For what? Everything is not easy, to put it mildly...