Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

On the porch of The Enchanted Hunters (in VN's novel Lolita, 1955, a hotel in Briceland where Humbert and Lolita spend their first night together) a stranger (Clare Quilty) tells Humbert that his child needs a lot of sleep and that sleep is a rose, as the Persians say:

Describing his visit to Ivor Quilty (the Ramsdale dentist), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentally tells Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer whom Humbert murders for abducting Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital) “Réveillez-vous, Laqueue, il est temps de mourir!  (Wake up, Laqueue, it is time to die!”):

Describing his life with Lolita in Beardsley (a small University town in New England), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions Butler’s Academy for Boys and their annual ball:

I did my best, your Honour, to tackle the problem of boys. Oh, I used even to read in the Beardsley Star a so-called Column for Teens, to find out how to behave!

In the Russian Lolita (1967) John Ray's Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript is dated August 5, 1955:

Джон Рэй, д-р философии

Видворт, Массачусетс

5 августа 1955 года

Describing Lolita's classmates at Beardsley College, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions Eva Rosen, a displaced little person from France:

Describing the library of Ardis Hall, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) mentions Judge Bald and his followers:

Describing Lolita's illness and hospitalization in Elphinstone (a small town in the Rocky Mountains), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) says that Lolita and nurse Mary Lore were plotting in Basque, or Zemfirian, against his hopeless love:

Describing his desperate attempts to find Lolita's abductor, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions the spangled acrobat with classical grace meticulously walking his tight rope in the taclum light and the sagging rope expert wearing scarecrow clothes and impersonating a grotesque drunk:

According to Clare Quilty, a playwright and pornographer whom Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) murders for abducting Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital, he is the author of fifty-two successful scenarios:

In his Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions the monumental decision rendered December 6, 1933, by Hon. John M. Woolsey: