-16: Including clients just who turned out . . . one Sig . . . was a student in the whole process of getting dreamed regarding once the an excellent “papa Fig” : MOTIF: fantasy .
Meters. Kachurin”), he writes of coming back “k charuyushchemu ‘chaparalyu’ / iz Vsadnika bez Golovy” (“or to what is enchantingly titled ‘chaparral’ / about Headless Horseman ,” ll
-12: turned-out by the certain twitchings of your eyelids and other semi-private pieces in control over medical college students : Fast Vision Actions regarding sleeping subjects is actually monitored by the psychologists as the an indicator of a particular stage out-of sleep (believe, at that time Nabokov was creating Ada, as entirely indicative of the dreaming phases out-of sleep). Private bits also are tracked by psychiatrists investigating, as an example, the capability off lucid dreamers in order to result in real orgasm inside 
willed sexual sleep.
-15: in the process of becoming dreamed from because the a great “papa Fig,” spanker from lady bottoms and spunky spittoon-member : “dad contour,” alluding to your position of the Oedipus cutting-edge in Freudian idea; relates in order to transference inside Freudian psychoanalysis (new patient’s moving thoughts towards the a pops on specialist) also to displacement into the Freudian dream idea (“spanker out of girl bottoms and you may spunky spittoon-representative,” and conjuring up good stereotypical patriarchal dad, also means “spunk” from the jargon sense of “sperm”).
-21: picnics . . . black bolero . . . pinewood : Ada wears several other black “Spanish” outfit, an excellent “lolita” (a generous top) to the various other picnic during the a good pinewood, on her behalf twelfth birthday celebration: pick -12, . MOTIF: oak .
: reddish trousers and a black bolero : Van’s history glimpse away from Ada from the Ardis try regarding the girl dressed in “yellow slacks and a black colored bolero,” . One catastrophe inside the “mother’s” lifetime hence appears to prefigure other in the Van’s individual. However, Lucette together with dons “black colored slacks and you will a lemon shirt” (-26) ahead of moving in order to this lady death. MOTIF: black-red-colored .
-22: went thanks to a tiny pinewood . . . located a suitable gulch regarding the chaparral : Cf. -29: “Aqua had moved because of a wooden and toward a great gulch in order to do it last year”; -11: “not too away from the tiny gulch where Aqua passed away and you can toward that i me personally feel coming some date.” Inside Nabokov’s 1947 poem “K Kn. S.Meters. Kachurinu” (“So you can Prince S. 79-80). Within his autobiography the guy recalls the newest games he and his awesome relative Yurik (Yuri Rausch von Traubenberg) will have inside imitation of one’s Insane West adventures regarding the Headless Horseman (1866) of the Mayne Reid (1818-1883): “Sick by the escapades on chaparral, . . . ” ( SM 203).
-30: She smiled, dreamingly enjoying the believe (rather ‘Kareninian’ during the build) you to their extinction carry out apply at someone about because the profoundly once the . . . : Anna, throughout the instances just before this lady suicide, succumbs to help you a great torrent regarding depressing thoughts (Region seven Chapters twenty-eight-31). Nabokov instance respected which succession once the basic sustained passing inside the a movement-of-consciousness layout.
-02: good fetus-in-utero reputation, a remark you to checked highly relevant to their pupils, as it may be so you can exploit : Good sardonic comment on the interest in new fetal reputation inside mental and you can anthroplogical symbolism, an anticipation from Van’s denunciation away from symbolization in his lectures since a psychologist (-), and a mirror of the strengths in order to Aqua’s report about the woman recollections of the fetus () for exactly who Van is actually replaced. Cf. also: : “fetus-measurements of rubberized doll.”
Sour, he rips himself out of Ada inside the an almost-self-destructive vibe (-)
-05: the fresh new sanest person with this or one environment : on this world (also known as Demonia along with Antiterra, , and you can and therefore related to Dementius, supposed to be another form of Devil, cuatro.22-23) or one to world, Terra, thought in mostly from the nuts or even the unpredictable.