Normality

I was browsing through my Anne Rice books, re-reading them and just falling more in love with the lyrical prose she typically writes in that some complain can drag. The book I had decided to cuddle up with on this specific day was the Queen of the Damned.

I was reading the section where Daniel recollects his meetings with Armand and how they gradually grow more intimate. There is a section where Armand talks about the past and society in general which I was struck by.

(Once I get my hands on the book again, I'll post up the quote)

In a nutshell, what Armand says is that society has always compared everything to a concept of normality that has never existed. That was just mindblowing. It's very true when you think about it. For a given value of normal, nobody is really normal.

Don't you think?