Brian Massumi, translator of the book 'A Thousand Plateaus', on the meaning of Deleuze and Guattari's concept of 'Plateau':
When circumstances bring on an activity to the pitch of intensity, that is not automatically dispatched in a climax. The heightening of energies is sustained long enough to leave a kind of altering of its dynamism that can be activated or injected into other activities, creating a fabric of intensive states between which my number of connecting routes could exist.
Intro, page XIV