The After Hours | June 19, 1960

The 7th floor of Bergdorf Goodman reminds me of the Twilight Zone episode:

A woman buying a gift in a department store tries to return it, but finds the clerk is a mannequin. She falls asleep, wakes up, then finds that she is a mannequin herself.

And precursors to museums, curiosity cabinets (Wunderkammer, wonder-rooms).

Foucault recalls Borges's 'Chinese Encyclopedia' in which it is written that animals are divided into:

1. those that belong to the Emperor,
2. embalmed ones,
3. those that are trained,
4. suckling pigs,
5. mermaids,
6. fabulous ones,
7. stray dogs,
8. those included in the present classification,
9. those that tremble as if they were mad,
10. innumerable ones,
11. those drawn with a very fine camelhair brush,
12. others,
13. those that have just broken a flower vase,
14. those that from a long way off look like flies.

Ah taxonomy. Mannequins. Michel Foucault. Andrew McCarthy.