To the list of postpositives I add: orange, as in clockwork.

WRT Nabakov... it seems like some readers prefer prose that is like a clear window overlooking an interesting scene. You don't spend time inspecting the windowframe or the glass, but rather the view which the window affords. Other readers delight in writing that is like a stained-glass window, where the window itself is meant to be admired, studied and interpreted with little if anything visible beyond the glass.