Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

According to John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955, the author of the Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript), the manuscript that came to his hands was subtitled "the Confession of a White Widowed Male:"  

At the beginning of his manuscript Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth: 

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. (1.1)

In his Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions his modest work (“Do the Senses make Sense?”) wherein certain morbid states and perversions had been discussed:

In his Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions his colleague, Dr. Blanche Schwarzmann:

In a poem that he makes Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer whom he murders for abducting Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital) read out loud Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions a litter of Lolitas:

In VN's novel Lolita (1955) the list of Lolita's classmates in Ramsdale school includes Stella Fantasia (adorable Stella who has let strangers touch her):

In VN's novel Lolita (1955) Clare Quilty (a fashionable playwright and pornographer whom Humbert Humbert murders for kidnapping Lolita) tells Humbert that he has been called the American Maeterlinck:

According to John Ray, Jr. (in VN's novel Lolita, 1955, the author of the Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript), Mrs. “Richard F. Schiller” (Lolita's married name) died in childbed, giving birth to a stillborn girl, on Christmas Day 1952, in Gray Star, a settlement in the remotest Northwest:

Describing Lolita's illness and hospitalization in Elphinstone (a little town in the Rockies), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions a heterosexual Erlkönig in pursuit:

Describing his life with Lolita, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) says that he dwelled deep in his elected paradise - a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise: