Any great work of art . . . revives and readapts time and space, and the measure of its success is the extent to which it makes you an inhabitant of that world -- the extent to which it invites you in and lets you breathe its strange, special air.
No one invites you to the top - you have to claw your way up. When you get there, you will sit with the others who were also uninvited - giggling.