He did feel those things . . . I would venture that creativity gave him that, rather than reading, though from the joyful intensity with which he analyzes books, I would say that his joy and so forth came from the examination of books, not with identifying with characters. (He also collected and pinned out butterflies for display, which seems to me to parallel his method of reading, though I could be wrong.)
But I encourage you to read the Lectures The last one, though incomplete, when he talks about genius, is some of the niftiest writing I have ever encountered.
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It's worth reading Nabokov's thoughts, but the short version is that reading is a kind of intellectual puzzle for him.
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But I encourage you to read the Lectures The last one, though incomplete, when he talks about genius, is some of the niftiest writing I have ever encountered.
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"The Art of Literature and Commonsense." You can skip to that, it won't spoil any books.
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