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the ordinary event which is really trickery,
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a suggestion that nothing has been left to chance in the novel;
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nothing is ordinary.
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Now, as I come to my last section here,
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what I want to suggest is that this kind of transformation of arbitrary,
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real fated events into conspicuously artificial tricks (which you might
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think of a knight's move on the real: fate; mcFate) is a response
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in particular to exile, in particular to Nabokov's condition of exile.
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An exile, living in a foreign country,
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lives in a kind of denaturalized world, a world where,
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instead of everything making instant sense everything has to be decoded. Right.
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Nothing is initially known to make sense;