No one yet has written about the relationship between the thought of the pre-Socratics, alleged to originate in smokey caverns, and the thought of Deleuze. In this essay, I risk venturing in this direction, as I underline the fact that both thoughts are non-exclusionary (they reject the spirit of exclusion), run through by a movement that is both continuous and contiguous and eager to destroy the spirit of war before war destroys life.