One is narcissism. One plays all by himself. Two is dualism. Two introduces an other and competition. Three is possibility, not either/or, his/hers, yours/mine, but something/place/else in that liminal space between. Four is multiplicity. The fourth dimension opens possibilities beyond the point, outside linear narrative, tilting the plane, opening the cube, into multiple ways of being. Five counts one beyond those multipliers, indicating infinity. Spark, recognition, connectivity, relativity, gestalt is five, more than the sum of its parts. Five adds the self and other plus three, all of those spaces in between. Five is indivisible except by itself and one, a prime number. Primal, being born, quintuplets, coming of age, quinceañera, a celebration, the quintessence of being, a composition of heavenly bodies, five is the penultimate, the almost-ultimate, the last but for one in a series counting a half-dozen, five leads to, well …