The grid is a borrowing. Winsor Mc Cay's Christmas syndicated strip-cartoon of Little Nemo for December 13th 1908, admired for its regularity, its sequence excitement, its reprised shapes and its formal and symmetrical narrative. However more things were pressing - how to organise the multiplication of points of view in Prospero's Books - a version of The Tempest, a consideration of you are what you read as opposed to the you are what you eat of The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover. Mc Cay's grid lost Nemo and the Christmas moon and is now full of different information - it has become an illustrated weather-forecast for Prospero with signs and symbols and isobars and a few windy quotations from Constable.