Darwin's Diagram of Divergence of Taxa

Borges' description of the categorisation scheme
of an ancient Chinese encyclopedia entitled Celestial
Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge

(a) animals 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