The last in our three-part series on lists, this episode looks at a fictitious encyclopedia entry by the Argentine Jorge Luis Borges, classifying animals into impossible categories. Can you write a list that similarly defies logic?

Mentioned in this episode: Roberto Alifano, Twenty-Four Conversations with Borges (1984); Jorge Luis Borges, "The Analytical Language of John Wilkins", tr. by Ruth L.C. Simms, in Other Inquisitions 1937-1952(1993); Michel Foucault, The Order of Things (1989)

Music: Carole Cassier

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