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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-