The Devil's Dictionary: Abnormal

Updated May 14, 2020 | Infoplease Staff
by Ambrose Bierce
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ABORIGINIES

ABNORMAL

-adj.

Not conforming to standard. In matters of thought and conduct, to be independent is to be abnormal, to be abnormal is to be detested. Wherefore the lexicographer adviseth a striving toward the straiter [sic] resemblance of the Average Man than he hath to himself. Whoso attaineth thereto shall have peace, the prospect of death and the hope of Hell.

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