More from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge
posted May 13th, 2006
Inspired by Borges’ 14 kinds of animals catalogued in “a certain Chinese encyclopedia, The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge,” here are
14 kinds of people
those mistaken for bigfoot
those who are asleep
government workers
nameless ones
those who exist only in dreams
women with cats
seafaring ones
those who are crying that cannot be consoled
actors
dead ancestors
babies
others
cyborgs, or drivers of cars
those that are already driven to madness
About Aharon N. Varady
Aharon's Omphalos is the hobbit hole of Aharon Varady, founding director of the Open Siddur Project. He is a community planner and environmental educator working to improve stewardship of the Public Domain, be it the physical and natural commons of urban park systems or the creative and cultural commons of libraries and museums. His advocacy for open-source strategies in the Jewish community has been written about in the Atlantic Magazine, the Yiddish Forverts, Tablet, and Haaretz. He is particularly interested in pedagogies for advancing ecological wisdom, developing creative and emotional intelligence, and realizing effective theurgical praxes . He welcomes your comments, personal messages, and kind words. If you find his work helpful to your own or you'd simply like to support him, please consider donating via his Patreon account.
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