The temptation of the hometowner is therefore the classic temptation of insularity, which equates (or confuses) interest with self-absorption.

A planar projection of a three-dimensional object is its projection onto a plane.

Edith Sitwell, in her charming history of Bath, lists, at the time of Jonathan Swift's sojournal there, just a few of the sects available, […] . There were Antinomians, Hederingtonians, Theaurian Joanites, Seekers, Waiters, Reevists, Brownists, Baronists, Wilkinsonians, Familists, Ranters, Muggletonians, and the Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion. They are all now forgotten: the law of extinction seems to apply as ruthlessly to sects as it does to species.

[…] Corporal Cornichon, walking straight up to the bar, tutoyering me all the time in the most horridly familiar manner, clapped me on the back, and asked me to take a glass of cognac with him.