I mean, it does kind of make sense. Almost invariably, you get the tingles when you come across something profound or cool or deeply life-changing. Something transcendent, basically, and all really great literature is transcendent in some way.

I always get the tingles when I reread the first chapter of Moby-Dick. I know I'm getting into something greater-than-normal, I can feel it.

>>24765149
Nabokov was a Tantric Kundalini Yogi who worshiped the energy of Kundalini Shakti?
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Pretty based if I can say so.

>>24765149
This ape trashed don quixote

>>24766017
maybe don quixote isn't that good and you're overly attached to it because you desperately want spanish literature to be able to compete with english literature?

>>24766025
Well, nothing will come close to english lit, unto the end of days, so that's not it... nabokov is russian by the way

>>24765149
He just means be an aesthete and savor the small details.

>>24766025
Not him, but don't talk shit if you haven't actually read Don Quixote. I am not some kind of Spanish lit enthusiast, the only Spanish classics I have read off the top of my head is that and El Cid.

With that in mind, it's a fucking great book. Not only do I consider it to be ahead of its time, I consider it to be ahead of our time. I don't think novels ever caught up to Don Quixote. I love how the characters are treated in it, and how the book itself feels like it warms up to Don Quixote by the end. You spend the whole book laughing at the tilting knight, but eventually the highlighting of the craziness of the world makes his brand of insanity seem like a reasonable response.

>>24765149
I've never read any Nabokov but all the critic-takes of his I've come across are just spot on. This guy had impeccable taste and this quote is just so beautiful and true.