True! Nervous, very, very dreadfully nervous I had been and am.
But why will you say that I am mad?
The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them.
Above all was the sense of hearing acute.
I heard all things in the heaven and in the earth.
I heard many things in hell.
How then am I mad?
Hearken! and observe how healthily, how calmly, I can tell you the whole story.