absym

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They made a leap into the absym, and now they have to try to explain their actions.

FIRST ANNIVERSARY OF THE LA COUBRE DISASTER 1961
Nay, if the young man about town, knowing nothing of how things were in the "dark backward and absym of time," but something of the moral distance between even so free-running a creature as the society girl and the average working girl of the factory, the shop and the office, would speak out (under assurance of immunity from prosecution) his testimony would be a surprise to the cartilaginous virgins, blowsy matrons, acrid relicts and hairy males of Emancipation.

A Cynic Looks at Life Ambrose Bierce 1878