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...but then the ruler, the calculator 

found and added up numbers,
groceries came to so much a week,
and sums and subtractions 

slowed negotiations into form:
with access to little, we put
ourselves in charge of it: but, now, 

our adding machines, as subtle
almost as the world, take in
quantities unimaginably specific 

and broad, and now again we see
not established identities and
limits but the free flow returned, 

the spiritual comings and goings
so dense, interpenetrant, and
responsive that tone and feeling 

are our guide, and rivers, tides,
fronts, highs flow as they flowed
before, and we see with a trillion 

events per second, hear and taste
in a flood, and live, if we live,
liveliest in the broad neighborhood.

--from 'So Long, Descartes'; A. R. Ammons (1986)

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