- Nabokov says, in presenting this slide show of tutors, he's less interested in their details than in the power of his own memory.
- "I witness with pleasure the supreme achievement of memory, which is the masterly use it makes of innate harmonies when gathering to its fold the suspended and wandering tonalities of the past." (8.5.1)
- Nabokov goes through a reverie of imaging the rooms of his childhood homes, the dining tables and chair in which the tutors sat, fading in and out.
- Remembering these images brings back the noise and smells, too.