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In a certain Chinese encyclopedia it is written that 'animals are divided into:
(a) belonging to the Emperor, (b) embalmed, (c) tame, (d) suckling 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.'

Michal, best comment evar. :)
Full points for quoting Foucault's preface to his "Order of Things", where he quotes a Borges text I have yet to identify.

Oh so à propos. Thank you. :)

THE ANALYTICAL LANGUAGE OF JOHN WILKINS, by JL Borges.

http://www.alamut.com/subj/artiface/language/johnWilkins.html

but who, or where, is kevin sites? ... or is that several different places? several places that kevin has been?

Ah yes, perfect, thank you Hugh. My copy of "Labyrinths" mysteriously folded into itself and vanished from this temporal plane.

(i.e. I lent it out and forgot to whom... :p

same here, though i am waiting for someone else to write the exact same text - it's bound to happen eventually. thank god for the "Internet."

Ahaaahahahaa nice nice.
You mean "The Library" right? ;)

library & pierre menard.

no no I meant, when you said "the internet", which some have called "The Library" ("which some have called 'The Universe')...

ayeeeee