Mirabilis reminds me of another post I could really do with restoring. So here we are (again). The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge’s classification of animals:
- those that belong to the Emperor
- embalmed ones
- those that are trained
- suckling pigs
- mermaids
- fabulous ones
- stray dogs
- those included in the present classification
- those that tremble as if they were mad
- innumerable ones
- those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush
- others
- those that have just broken a flower vase
- those that from a long way off look like flies
