Jorge Luis Borges Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: August 24, 1899 - June 14, 1986
Birthday: August 24
Death: June 14
On those remote pages [of 'a certain Chinese encyclopedia'] it is written that animals are divided into (a) those that belong to the Emperor, (b) embalmed ones, (c) those that are trained, (d) suckling pigs, (e) mermaids, (f ) fabulous ones, (g) stray dogs, (h) those that are included in this classification, (i) those that tremble as if they were mad, (j) innumerable ones, (k) those drawn with a very fine camel's hair brush, (l) others, (m) those that have just broken a flower vase, (n) those that resemble flies from a distance.
source: "The Analytical Language of JohnWilkins" (1942) (translation by Ruth L. C. Simms)
topic: Dog, Distance, Flower, Stray Dogs, Classification
