EXCERPT The mathematician and occultist Charles Lutwidge Dodgson—whose precise relation to the AOE remains cryptic and ambivalent—dedicated his life’s work to understanding the final degenerative phase of the Epoch of Hummpa-Taddum. Writing under the pseudonym Lewis Carroll he introduces his heroine Alice to the mad despot and pomo fuzz-technician, thinly disguised by the folk-name Humpty-Dumpty.…