It must feel like herding cats, with 20-or-so members and with the big five franchise owning groups.

The contact geometry is in many ways an odd-dimensional counterpart of the symplectic geometry, a structure on certain even-dimensional manifolds. The concepts of contact geometry and symplectic geometry are both motivated by the mathematical formalism of classical mechanics, where one can consider either the even-dimensional phase space of a mechanical system or the constant-energy hypersurface, which, being of codimension 1, has odd dimension.

And foster father of the Gyaunt dead ; His name Ignaro did his nature right aread

Shall wee force the general law of nature, which in all living creatures under heaven is seene to tremble at paine?