Virginia Woolf's [dream] was for the writing to be like the line of a Chinese poem-drawing. She says that it is necessary to ‘saturate every atom’ and to do that it is necessary to eliminate, to eliminate all that is resemblance and analogy, but also ‘to put everything into it.’ … To be present at the dawn of the world. Such is the link between imperceptibility, indiscernibility, and impersonality – the three virtues. To reduce oneself to an abstract line, a trait, in order to find one's zone of indiscernibility with other traits, and in this way enter the haecceity and impersonality of the creator. One is then like grass: one has made the world … a becoming…. Because one has suppressed in oneself everything that prevents us from slipping between things and growing in the midst of things…. To succeed in getting drunk, but on pure water (Henry Miller). To succeed in getting high, but by abstention, ‘to take and abstain, especially abstain.’ I am a drinker of water. (Michaux)

(Deleuze and Guattari 1987: 280, 286)