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“Alice in Wonderland” author and amateur cryptographer Lewis Carroll wrote stories and poetry that drip with critiques of Victorian mores and governance, disguised as fantastical children’s nonsense verse, inscrutable riddles and shaggy-dog stories.

All of it is performed in a cascading blend of English, French, and German with Zulu, Xhosa, Swazi, and Swahili, not to mention high-speed nonsense verse.

The 19th-century English artist and writer was a serious painter, but he is most loved for his nonsense verse “The Owl and the Pussycat.”

“Fountain” was rejected, but Alfred Stieglitz photographed it for this short-lived Dada magazine, which mixed nonsense verse with editorials that asked, “Where Art is concerned is New York satisfied to be like a provincial town?”

In his younger days, Alfred himself produced some exceptionally funny parodies and nonsense verse.