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Inspired by Borges’ 14 kinds of animals<\/a> catalogued in “a certain Chinese encyclopedia, The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge<\/em>,” here are<\/p>\n

14 kinds of people<\/strong><\/p>\n

    \n
  1. those mistaken for bigfoot<\/li>\n
  2. those who are asleep<\/li>\n
  3. government workers<\/li>\n
  4. nameless ones<\/li>\n
  5. those who exist only in dreams<\/li>\n
  6. women with cats<\/li>\n
  7. seafaring ones<\/li>\n
  8. those who are crying that cannot be consoled<\/li>\n
  9. actors<\/li>\n
  10. dead ancestors<\/li>\n
  11. babies<\/li>\n
  12. others<\/li>\n
  13. cyborgs, or drivers of cars<\/li>\n
  14. those that are already driven to madness<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[41],"class_list":["post-31","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-jorge-luis-borges","odd"],"yoast_head":"\nMore from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge • Aharon's Omphalos<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"More from the Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge • Aharon's Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"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 […]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2006\/05\/more-from-the-celestial-emporium-of-benevolent-knowledge\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Aharon's Omphalos\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:author\" content=\"http:\/\/facebook.com\/aharonium\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-05-14T03:25:34+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2008-06-09T22:51:32+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/05\/aharons-omphalos.png\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"1257\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"1487\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/png\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Aharon N. 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