[NPPF] Canto Three: The English stuff.. hueshade

[Terrance]

> Nabokov is not limited to the primary definition of a word. 

Primary? Meaning the definition appearing first in a dictionary entry?
Well, in most dictionaries that would mean the meaning most frequently
used by speakers at the time the dictionary was compiled. Of course some
dictionaries list definitions by semantic evolution or whatever. While
it's quite obvious that N is not limited to the "primary" definition,
how we determine what definition or definitions (puns, anagrams, etc.) 
he has in mind when  he uses a particular word (i.e., Shadow) is not as
easy as looking up successive definitions in a dictionary. One needs to
use the imagination as well. And, no finer imagination exists than the
one excited by a book tingling the top of the spine. 

You go girl, 

Jane