ATP: BwO This sounds depressing. It’s not. Actually the BwO is an intensification of all feeling… However, achieving these intensities is delicate. In fact, D&G warn readers of the "ever-present dangers of that empty their BwO's instead of filling them." (ATP 152) Creating a BwO is a task that must be attacked with caution, `since overdose is a danger. 'You don't do it with a sledgehammer, you use a very fine file' (ATP 160). Further on, having first invoked Artaud, Deleuze and Guattari dissociate the task of destratifying the organism and creating a body without organs from committing suicide: You invent self-destructions that have nothing to do with the death-drive. Dismantling the organism never meant killing yourself, but rather opening the body to connections that presuppose an entire assemblage [... ]. [... .] You have to keep enough of the organism for it to reform each dawn [... ]. [... ] You don't reach the BwO [... ] by wildly destratifying. [... .] If you free it with too violent an action, if you blow apart the strata without taking precautions, then [... ] you will be killed, plunged into a black hole, or even dragged toward catastrophe. Staying stratified - organized, signified, subjected - is not the worst that can happen; the worst that can happen is if you throw the strata into demented or suicidal collapse, which bring them back down on us heavier than ever (Deleuze and Guattari 1988: 160-161). Now we're back to intensities.