Those that, at a distance, resemble flies

This blogroll classification amused me:

• Those that belong to the emperor 
• Embalmed ones 
• Those that are trained 
• Suckling pigs 
• Mermaids (or Sirens) 
• Fabulous ones 
• Stray dogs 
• Those that are included in this classification 
• Those that tremble as if they were mad 
• Innumerable ones 
• Those drawn with a very fine camel hair brush
• Those that have just broken the flower vase 
• Those that, at a distance, resemble flies

Taken from 'Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge' (Spanish: Emporio celestial de conocimientos benévolos), a fictitious taxonomy of animals described by the writer Jorge Luis Borges in his 1942 essay "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins" (El idioma analítico de John Wilkins).