*Those who belong to the emperor
*Embalmed ones
*Those who are trained
*Suckling pigs
*Mermaids (or Sirens)
*Fabulous ones
*Stray dogs
*Those who are included in this classification
*Those who tremble as if they were mad
*Innumerable ones
*Those drawn with a very fine camel hair brush
*Others
*Those who have just broken the flower vase
*Those who, at a distance, resemble flies
--from "Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge," a fictitious taxonomy of animals described in the book THE ANALYTICAL LANGUAGE OF JOHN WILKINS by the magic realist writer Jorge Luis Borges
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