Source identified
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“Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.”
- Source
- Elsie Venner
- Date
- 1861
- Local voice
- Fictional narrator · Narrator
Meaning of “Insanity is often the logic of an accurate…”
Holmes’s narrator links mental breakdown with a mind pushed beyond its capacity, reflecting a nineteenth-century literary-medical way of reasoning about distress.
Where does it come from?
Elsie Venner, represented by Project Gutenberg #2696 and corroborated by Gutenberg’s Holmes quotation index. The sentence belongs to nineteenth-century literary and medical-philosophical discourse; it is not current psychiatric guidance, diagnosis or a clinically validated rule.
Why the local voice matters
Elsie Venner. The sentence belongs to the novel’s nineteenth-century narrative/medical-philosophical discourse and is not current psychiatric guidance.