The Foucault-Borges quote (see Oz's comment to my previous entry, Mutatis Mutandi) probably can't tell us the breed of Jackson' MuTT, but I'm thrilled to see it again without trying to do a Vulcan mind-meld on my library. Thank you, Oz. Thank you thank you thank you!

The quote does seem to fold into the subject somehow (if an analogy involving cake batter may be applied liberally -- with my perhaps too-broad spatula). It relates recursively, I mean.

The (prime?) difficulty with Borges' supposed Chinese categories is that they don't follow a single principle of classification (so that, for example, a suckling pig may belong to the emperor, thereby hybridizing categories and making the whole system of classification in some ways unworkable).