Describing his failed visit to Villa Venus (Eric Veen's floramors), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) metnions peripatetic Russian newspaper readers slowing down to a trance stop and then strolling again behind their wide open Estotskiya Vesti:
At the picnic on Ada's twelfth birthday Marina (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, Van's, Ada's and Lucette's mother) calls her husband, Daniel Veen (Lucette's father), ‘bednyachok (poor, poor little man):'
Describing the beginning of his life-long romance with Ada, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions Pig Pigment (as Ada calls Paul G. Gigment, the painter):
When Ada (now married to Andrey Vinelander) refuses to leave her sick husband, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) calls her ‘Helen of Troy, Ada of Ardis:'
Describing the beginning of his life-long romance with Ada, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions Pig Pigment (as Ada calls Paul G. Gigment, a painter):
During Van's first tea party at Ardis Marina (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, Van's, Ada's and Lucette's mother) says that Dostoevski loved tea with raspberry syrup:
Describing his dinner with Ada (now married to Andrey Vinelander) and her family at Bellevue Hotel in Mont Roux, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions the two agents of Lemorio, the flamboyant comedian:
Describing Flavita (the Russian Scrabble), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions Baron Klim Avidov, an old friend of the family who gave Marina's children (Van, Ada and their half-sister Lucette) a set of Flavita:
Describing his final reunion with Ada in July 1922, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions the huge memorable oil — three ample-haunched Ledas swapping lacustrine impressions — that had been replaced by a neoprimitive masterpiece showing three yellow eggs and a pair of plumber’s gloves on what looked like wet bathroom tiling:
