EDNote: A few message slipped through the cracks in my hectic schedule
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Both
Shade and Nabokov would know the historical associations of "azure" as
it was used by the French symbolists and the Spanish "azulistas."
Color is less important that its symbolic resonance as the sign of
transcendence.