Wednesday, August 27, 2008

"The Analytical Language of John Wilkins"

by Jorge Luis Borges

A invented Chinese encyclopedia "Celestial EMproum of Benevolent Knowledge" catagorizes all animals as:
a. Belonging to the Emperor
b. Embalmed
c. Tame
d. Sucking pigs
e. Sirens
f. Fabulous
g. Stray dogs
h. Included in the present classification
i. Frenzied
j. Innumerable
k. Drawn with a very fine camel-hair brush
l. Et cetera
m. Having just broken the water pitcher
n. That from a long way off look like flies

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