“…A limited number of spatial metaphorical constructs are employed to parse the full range of temporal experience, one example being ‘forward motion along a path’ (Nunez and Cooperrider 2013, 221). Nabokov recruits this very image in Speak, Memory to depict the ‘dawning’ of his own experience of temporality: as he ‘progress[es]’ along ‘the middle of the path’ between units of space, ‘from sun fleck to sun fleck’, the flow of time intellectually crystallises into a spatial context (Nabokov 1967, 22; Toker 2005, 239). Elsewhere in Nabokovian metaphor, in Ada alone, time is a twisting path (2012, 174), a fabric (41), a flow (158), a chain (311) and a corridor (124); whilst the models change, the rule that ‘time is space’ remains.…”