Love or Math

Re Drayton’s Endimion and Phoebe:

He would like to have depicted the Platonic ascent from carnal to intelligible love, but has really no idea of what one would find at the top of the ladder.  He has to fill up with astronomy and the theory of numbers.

-- C.S. Lewis, English Literature in the Sixteenth Century (1944), p. 532

Actually, not a bad expedient.

The idea is developed  here:

https://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2014/01/the-ladder-of-abstraction-with-added.html 

Note:  The title of this post alludes to Edward Frenkel’s book, Love and Math, considered here:

http://worldofdrjustice.blogspot.com/2013/11/gradus-ad-parnassum.html