Lewis Carroll took the nineteenth century into a dream 
world that was as startling as that of Bosch, but built on 
reverse principles. Alice in Wonderland  offers as norm that 
continuous time and space that had created consternation in 
the Renaissance. Pervading this uniform Euclidean world of 
familiar space-and-time, Carroll drove a fantasia of 
discontinuous space-and-time that anticipated Kafka, Joyce, 
and Eliot. Carroll, the mathematical contemporary of Clerk 
Maxwell, was quite avant-garde  enough to know about the non-
Euclidean geometries coming into vogue in his time. He gave 
the confident Victorians a playful foretaste of Einsteinian time-
and-space in Alice in Wonderland . Bosch had provided his era a 
foretaste of the new continuous time-and-space of uniform 
perspective. Bosch looked ahead to the modern world with 
horror, as Shakespeare did in King Lear , and as Pope did in The  
Dunciad . But Lewis Carroll greeted the electronic age of space-