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The title is a reference to the Edgar Allan Poe story, in which the narrator declares that "what you mistake for madness is but overacuteness of the senses".

From The Guardian • Mar. 29, 2011

"By nature and by education," says M. Paul Bourget, "M. Ed. de Goncourt possesses an intelligence, the overacuteness of which verges on disease in its comprehension of infinitesimal gradations and of the infinitely subtle creature."

From Renée Mauperin by Hallard, Alys