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.
No fue precisamente como una descarga eléctrica, sino algo agudo, extraño, estimulante, que despertó mis sentidos cual si hasta entonces hubiesen permanecido aletargados.