In "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins,"
Jorge Luis Borges describes 'a certain Chinese Encyclopedia,' the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge, in which it is written that animals are divided into:
a) those belonging to the Emperor,
b) those that are embalmed
c) those that are tame,
d) suckling pigs,
e) sirens,
f) fabulous ones,
g) stray dogs,
h) those included in the present classification,
i) those that tremble as if they were mad,
j) innumerable ones,
k) those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
l) others,
m) those that have just broken a flower vase,
n) those that from a distance look like flies.
b) those that are embalmed
c) those that are tame,
d) suckling pigs,
e) sirens,
f) fabulous ones,
g) stray dogs,
h) those included in the present classification,
i) those that tremble as if they were mad,
j) innumerable ones,
k) those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
l) others,
m) those that have just broken a flower vase,
n) those that from a distance look like flies.
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