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where animals are categorised 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 camelhair brush, (l) et cetera, (m) having just broken the water pitcher, (n) that from a long way off look like flies.
Borges[1]          

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  1. ^ Borges, Jorge Luis, “El Idioma de John Wilkins”, p. 708, Oberas Completas, (Buenos Aires: Emecé, 1974) quoted in Michel Foucault Le Mot et les choses: une archéologie des sciences humaines, (Paris: Gallimard, 1966) quoted in David Macey The Lives of Michel Foucault, p.xviii, (London: Vintage, 1994).