[[EPZ Thousand Plateaus - Gilles Deleuze Félix Guattari]] Gilles Deulze, Felix Guattari, Anti-Oedipus, Capitalism and Schizophrenia,222 > In this regard Jacques Lacarriere has called attention to the figures and the moments of Christian asceticism Egypt, Palestine, and Syria, starting with the third century: Les hommes ivres de Dieu (Grenoble: Arthaud, 1961). First come gentle paranoiacs who install themselves close to a village, then withdraw into the desert where they invent astonishing ascetic machines expressing their struggle against the old alliances and filiations (the Saint Anthony stage); next, communities of disciples are formed, monasteries where one of the main activities is to write the life of the founding saint: celibate machines with a military discipline where the monk "reconstructs around him, in the form of ascetic and collective constraints, the aggressive universe of the old persecutions" (the Saint Pachomius stage); and finally, the return to the city or the village; armed groups of perverts who assign themselves the task of struggling against the dying paganism (the Schnoudi stage). More generally, concerning the monastery's relationship with the city, see Lewis Mumford, who talks about an "elaboration of a new form of urban structuration" in terms of monasteries (The City in History [New York: Harcourt, Brace, and World, 1961], pp. 246ff., 258-59).