See, itĘs the intersection of the points, not the parabola itself, that is at issue. The point is more precise, an arm raised here, a missing baton, the lowly taken aback.
This is to point to configuration not constituent entity. Think of it thus; (precisely not filmic) what is more important: that the baronĘs charge is an entity, or the points of contact and disaffiliation that position the charge within a (and, between oral and written, more importantly your) mutable gardenscape?