" I think I just like saying 'intake manifold.' " — Emma Watson in "The Circle."
"The manifold that Heraclitus wishes to communicate is a dense, multi-
dimensional complex of ideas and experiences, but speech and writing are
linear. It would be very inefficient to try to communicate with precision the
multidimensional complexity of such a manifold by a simple, literal linear
description."
— Word and Flux, by Bruce J. MacLennan,
p. 357 of the January 2, 2021, version.
See also MacLennan in a Log24 post of Christmas Eve, 2012.