ABSTRACT
How peculiar it seems to consider this passage as offering images of the thinking and language of mathematics. Mathematical language is language at its most civilized, full of explicit rules of order and clear, unambiguous procedures on how to conduct oneself properly. It appears as an unearthly language, born of what Alfred North Whitehead called the “celibacy of the intellect” (cited in Fox, 1983, p. 24). It appears to be fully severed from the messes that moisten our lives and give them an unruly fragrance-“the juice and the mystery” (Adler, 1989).
