Deleuze 1993

The Pleats of Matter

labyrinth -- continuous labyrinth -- "multiple because it contains many folds" (3)

"matter tends to spill over in space, to be reconciled with fluidity at the same time fluids themselves are divided into masses" (4)

fundamental notions of the curvature of the universe:

• fluidity of matter
• elasticity of bodies
• motivating spirit as a mechanism

"matter thus offers an infinitely porous, spongy, or cavernous texture without emptiness, caverns endlessly contained in other caverns" (5)

body essentially esastic -- hardness as well as fluidity

"That is what Leibniz explains in an extraordinary piece of writing: a flexible or an elastic body still has cohering parts that form a fold, such that they are not separated into parts of parts but are rather divided to infinity in smaller and smaller folds that always retain a certain cohesion. Thus a continuous labyrinth is not a line dissolving into independent points, as flowing sand might dissolve into grains, but resembles a sheet of paper divided into infinite folds or separated into bending movements, each one determined by the consistent or conspiring surroundings." (6)

folds always folded in folds --= always caverns in caverns

unfolding not the opposite of folding, but "follows the fold up to the following fold" (6)