No one knew it yet, not even the greatest astrophysicists: Ticouac, a very young consciousness, witnessed, enchanted, to the birth and expansion of the universe. Contemplative or bursting with laughter, he was drawn into a gigantic cosmic ballet of shattering explosions, dark and bright, in which he slid on slides, rode whales, and discovered snowflakes or flying kites.... Finally, he went down to meet a baby-looking man who, like him, had openned his eyes on the wonders of the Grand Universe billions and billions of years ago.