/lit/ - Literature

What's up, deleuzers and guattards
I recently started my way into A Thousand Plateaus and I'm surprised by just how fun it is to read, and how much I feel that I'm actually "getting" it. There are just a few areas of trouble I keep getting bogged down in that aren't really being helped by going over deleuzian dictionaries and encyclopedias and whatnot so I think it'd be good to try to clarify
1. what exactly is being communicated when they clarify that whereas roots/trees contain points connected via lines by the binary relations between them, a rhizome has no points or positions and is "only lines"? As someone with some experience in graph theory, this kind of breaks the cognitive tools I have set up to visualize this kind of thing. Is the point just that rhizomes are not assemblages of relations between discrete things-in-themselves, but rather that everything contained "within" a rhizome is constituted solely its very relations and dependent on that context? Or am I still missing something
2. what, in the plainest language possible, is a line of flight? I understand it to be the movement/direction by which an assemblage leaves/extends a territory and by which it is changed as it connects to other multiplicities. Something like an n-dimensional vector encoding the transformation/"direction" along which the multiplicity's structure is deformed (also indicates the finitude of a multiplicity by fully encoding its movement in a finite number of dimensions). What, then, is its relationship to the "plane/grid of consistency"? Is it the set of all lines of flight between all multiplicities? The set of all lines of flight belonging to one multiplicity? The mutual set of lines between just two multiplicities? Or is the plane just the spatial medium we might imagine these lines of flight stretching across? Or none of these?
3. what is "intensity" within the context of ATP? I understand that it is ontologically fundamental and the product of differences between forces, but am I right in assuming that it is the constituent substance of qualia, or at least related to phenomenal experience (a literally felt "intensity" surrounding a concept, event, whatever). If not, how should I be thinking of it instead?