“What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, and imbecile norm of the earth; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe. Who shall unravel this confusion?”
– from the Pensées of Blaise Pascal
Chimera
Pronunciation: k?-?mir-?
A monster compounded of incongruous parts