bread & tulips | life is often just for sake of...

Life is often just "for sake of" and we need to know about it and want to benefit when we are presented with the occasion to. A bit for "sake of", a bit for choice, Rosalba, young and apart from anything a housewife of Pescara, during a bus trip after she found herself alone and...forgotten in a highway café, decides not to wait for her husband and sons to come back to pick her up but instead decides to find her own way home.

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jorge luis borges | contents of a certain chinese encyclopaedia

From The Celestial Emporium of Benevolent Knowledge

Animals are divided into: 

(a) those that belong to the Emperor; 

(b) embalmed ones; 

(c) those that are trained; 

(d) suckling pigs; 

(e) mermaids; 

(f) fabulous ones; 

(g) stray dogs; 

(h) those that are included in this classification; 

(i) those that tremble as if they were mad; 

(j) innumerable ones; 

(k) those drawn with a very fine camel's-hair brush; 

(l) et cetera; 

(m) those that have just broken the flower vase; 

(n) those that at a distance resemble flies.

Listed in 'a certain Chinese encyclopaedia' described in Jorge Luis Borges' short story "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins"