James,
Thank you four your thoughtful comment. I appreciate it when people take some time to interact with me and the material directly — in fact, I think I had a dream about that happening at some point in the not too distant past…
I hadn’t actually realized that the poetic language I was using in the state of extremis in which I was writing… might disparage numbers directly, but in re-reading the essay with your comment in mind, I see how someone could take that from the language. Hopefully, numbers are so amazing (our relationships with numerism are actually senses not merely methods), that I can simply tone the language down a bit or at least include some comments that will reduce that impression. I’ll take a look at the text with that in mind, shortly.
