In today's times, in a completely random place [in the *sports* section, I think] I ran into this statement: ... Lewis Carroll was a pseudonym for Charles Dodgson, a mathematics prof at Oxford, and Alice in Wonderland was born out of his antipathy for new mathematical concepts in the late 1800s. Math had been pretty straight-forward up until then, so Dodgson created a world based on abstract math to show that being on drugs made more sense than embracing new, ridiculous concepts. Wonderland was born out of spite! Alice was a representation of a Euclidian mathematician while Wonderland stood for Christ Church College at Oxford, where Dodgson worked. I've *NEVER* heard this "analysis" of Alice before [and the "new mathematical concepts" date to Gauss's, et alia, work in the early-to-mid 1800s, don't they?]. Have any of you ever heard anything like this? I think it is pretty unlikely.... /Bernie\ -- Bernie Cosell Fantasy Farm Fibers mailto:bernie@fantasyfarm.com Pearisburg, VA --> Too many people, too few sheep <--