magic formula for the female figure while the haptic hand 
sweeps the air.

     Baudelaire had the true intuition of number as a tactile 
hand or nervous system for interrelating separate units, when 
he said that “number is within the individual. Intoxication is a 
number.” That explains why “the pleasure of being in a crowd is 
a mysterious expression of delight in the multiplication of 
number.” Number, that is to say, is not only auditory and 
resonant, like the spoken word, but originates in the sense of 
touch, of which it is an extension. The statistical aggregation 
or crowding of numbers yields the current cave-drawings or 
finger-paintings of the statisticians’ charts. In every sense, the 
amassing of numbers statistically gives man a new influx of 
primitive intuition and magically subconscious awareness, 
whether of public taste or feeling: “You feel better satisfied