"Good Readers and Good Writers" #8

There are so many different reactions that people could feel when reading this essay by Vladimir Nabokov. I guess the first thing that came to my mind when reading this was emotion. Nabokov said some pretty harsh things and was being pushy. He was cocky and arrogant. "This lowly variety is not the kind of imagination I would like readers to use." This sentence shows how cocky Nabokov can be. He is ordering readers around telling them how to be imaginative. But then Nabokov has informational quotes just like these ones: "We ought to remain a little aloof and take pleasure in this aloofness while at the same time we keenly enjoy—passionately enjoy, enjoy with tears and shivers—the inner weave of a given masterpiece. However, I did notice that all of his writings were knowledgeable and informing." In this sentence he is suggesting more and is not really ordering readers around. It is also very informational. I guess you could say that my mood changed the more and more I read "Good Readers and Good Writers". I was pretty upset with the way Nabokov was sending out his information but more towards the end I learned to appreciate what he had to say. I noticed that he was just writing in a clever and creative way. He must be a very well respected writer.