[theletterf]

This post reminds me of Umberto Eco's intellectual divertissements. More specifically, this fantastic piece, "On the Impossibility of Drawing a Map of the Empire on a Scale of 1 to 1."

https://s3.amazonaws.com/arena-attachments/881694/cb6119367b...

[alberto_ol]

Umberto Eco quoted Jorge Luis Borges:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_Exactitude_in_Science

[B1FF_PSUVM]

Speaking of Borges, sometimes I'm sadly reminded of his spoof of categorization schemes ("Animals: those that belong to the Emperor, embalmed ones," etc. ) : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celestial_Emporium_of_Benevole...

[remoquete]

Yes, though it'd be perhaps more accurate to say it expanded upon the theme, as Wikipedia says.