In 'Good Readers, Good Writers,' Vladimir Nabokov says 'In reading, one should notice and fondle details.There is nothing wrong about the moonshine of generalization when it comes after the sunny trifles of the book have been lovingly collected.If one begins with a readymade generalization, one begins at the wrong end and travels away from the book before one has started to understand it.'How can you explain this idea simply to your friend who has not read the essay?

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