These ambiguities, redundancies and deficiencies recall those
which Dr Franz Kuhn attributes to a certain Chinese encyclopaedia
entitled The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge. In its remote pages
it is written that the animals can be divided into:
(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) that tremble as if they were mad,
(j) innumerable,
(k) drawn with a very fine camel hair
brush,
(l) et cetera,
(m) having just broken the water pitcher,
(n) that
from a long way off look like flies.
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