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Reminds me of a JL Borges piece in which he writes of a fictive Chinese encyclopedia in which animals are categorized as:

   1. belonging to the Emperor
   2. embalmed
   3. trained
   4. piglets
   5. sirens
   6. fabulous
   7. stray dogs
   8. included in this classification
   9. trembling like crazy
  10. innumerables
  11. drawn with a very fine camelhair brush
  12. et cetera
  13. just broke the vase
  14. from a distance look like flies







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