“For all the sickly Romantic geniuses out there who purportedly succumbed to the wild thrall of their passions – Robert Schumann, Edgar Allan Poe, William Blake, etc. – there have been as many doctors, psychologists, and literary Darwinists itching to diagnose them. … The not-always-subtle subtext is that unexplainable visions, or other divine madnesses, have no place in our enlightened, modern world.”