Organization Systems

Written about an ancient Chinese encyclopedia entitled Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge:

On those remote pages 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.
  

Hat tip to Kevin Kelly. The original fictional encyclopedia is from Borges.