96 Hélène Frichot, “Stealing into Deleuze’s Baroque House,” in Ian Buchanan and Gregg Lambert eds, Deleuze and Space (Edinburgh: University of Edinburgh Press, 2005), pp. 61-79. Chapter 3 Stealing into Gilles Deleuze’s Baroque House Helene Frichot In fact, the house does not shelter us from cosmic forces; at most it filters and selects them. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari 1 Now we are at home. But home does not preexist: it was necessary to draw a circle around that uncertain and fragile centre, to organise a limited place. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari 2 The great refrain arises as we distance ourselves from the house, even if this is in order to return, since no one will recognise us any more when we come back. Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari 3 Theft is primary in thought. Gilles Deleuze 4 Stealing is the opposite of plagiarizing, copying, imitating, or doing like. Gilles Deleuze 5