{Number Cards and Railways}[21st November 1987]

[Redbook4:162][19871121:0200b]{Number Cards and Railways}[21st November 1987]

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(While doodling*, half-seriously, for an immense 'N'-gauge** model railway representation of the Circles on our Byre***, I speculated that Number Cards I to X might in fact be stationary locations at or near each Cardinal – Hearts, Clubs, Diamonds and Spades – like a ladder up which one would have to climb inwards according to the rules of cards – e.g. Ace can jump to above King – to reach Knaves, which is the lowest Circle on which one can rotate. Like Sidings****.

There were also problems of commitment to Cross-routes, e.g.:#

*(ref [[Redbook4:162][19871121:0200b]{Number Cards and Railways}[21st November 1987],] 162A [the doodle, inserted in the ms but not included here])

**[British N Gauge: 1:148 ratio/scale, 9mm rail gauge (2&1/16mm:1 foot). Nothing of this kind was ever constructed.]

***[At [CH].]

****[i.e. passing/waiting loops, according to the marginal diagram.]

#[Refers to a rough diagram not included here.]

(cf. The Unfinished Cathedral[:] II.[[Redbook2:237-238][19820809:0845b]{A Dream: The Unfinished Cathedral/Church}[9^th August 1982]])

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