"The fatal flaw in Mr Rowe's treatment of recurrent words, such as "garden" or "water" is his regarding them as abstractions, and not realizing that the sound of a bath being filled, say, in the world of Laughter in the Dark, is as different from the limes rustling in the rain of Speak, Memory as the Garden of Delights in Ada is from the lawns in Lolita."

 Nabokov quoted in "Nabokov in bed", TLS 4/2/11