Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge's Taxonomy

Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge's Taxonomy by Jorge Luis Borges, 1942.

A list which divides all animals into one of 14 categories:

• Those that belong to the emperor
• Embalmed ones
• Those that are trained
• Suckling pigs
• Mermaids (or Sirens)
• Fabulous ones
• Stray dogs
• Those that are included in this classification
• Those that tremble as if they were mad
• Innumerable ones
• Those drawn with a very fine camel hair brush
• Et cetera
• Those that have just broken the flower vase
• Those that, at a distance, resemble flies