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Gregory Schrempp
The Folkloresque, 11/2015Book Chapter
“Monster” is an anthropocentric concept: the being of monsters inheres precisely in theiraberration fromus or from our sense of the normal. Etymologically, amonstrum(Latin) was an omen defined by a departure from the ordinary and, as all aberrations contain the trace of their departure point, monsters confirm that point as the center from which the monstrous is elaborated. The imagining of monsters is thus necessarily constrained: if we were capable of imagining an alien being that was entirely free of us—a “totally other”—it would not be monstrous. Like the ordinary and the monstrous , science
