The feeling was not like an electric shock, but it was quite as sharp, as strange, as startling: it acted on my senses as if their utmost activity hitherto had been but torpor, from which they were now summoned and forced to wake.
Quella sensazione non somigliava a un urto elettrico, ma era altrettanto acuto, quanto strano e violento. Pareva che fino a quel momento la mia maggior attività fosse stata soltanto torpore, dal quale mi s'imponeva d'uscire.