Quoting Philippe Caquant <herodote92@...>:
> These Noun Classes reminded me somehow of Borges'
> classification for animals:
>
> (my own mediocre translation)
>
> Animals can be classified as follows:
> - belonging to the Emperor
> - embalmed ones
> - domesticated ones
> - sucking pigs
> - mermaids
> - fabulous ones
> - rambling dogs
> - included in the present classification
> - frantically agitated ones
> - innumerable ones
> - drawn with a very thin camel-hair brush
> - having just broken the jug
> - seeming like flies from far away
> - others...
I recognize this, but I didn't think I had read anything by Borges. Where is
it from, more exactly?
Andreas