Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

In his foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions Humbert Humbert's singing violin:

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, Clare Quilty meets Humbert Humbert in the Oriental parlor:

In an attempt to save his life Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer whom Humbert Humbert murders for abducting Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital) tries to seduce Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) with his collection of erotica and mentions the in folio de-luxe Bagration Island by the explorer and psychoanalyst Melanie Weiss:

During her second road trip with Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) across the USA, Lolita falls ill and on Tuesday, June 28, 1949, is hospitalized in Elphinstone (a small town in the Rocky Mountains):

The narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita (1955), Humbert Humbert would have never met Lolita, if on the eve the fire had not destroyed McCoo's house:

The narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita (1955), Humbert Humbert visits Lolita (now married to Dick Schiller and big with child) in Coalmont on September 23, 1952. Ray Bradbury's science fiction story The Veldt originally appeared as The World the Children Made in the September 23, 1950, issue of The Saturday Evening Post. It was republished under its current name in the 1951 anthology The Illustrated Man.

Describing Gradus’ activities in Paris, Kinbote (in VN’s novel Pale Fire, 1962, Shade’s mad commentator who imagines that he is Charles the Beloved, the last self-exiled king of Zembla) mentions Zule Bretwit, Oswin's grand-uncle, Mayor of Odevalla, and a cousin of his, Ferz Bretwit, Mayor of Aros:

According to Boris Ivanovich Shchyogolev, a character (Fyodor's landlord, Zina Mertz's stepfather) in VN's novel Dar ("The Gift," 1937), if he had time, he would write a novel:

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), he writes Lolita in legal captivity (a New York gaol). Describing the prison library, Humbert Humbert mentions A Murder is Announced by Agatha Christie:

Describing Gradus’ day in New York, Kinbote (in VN’s novel Pale Fire, 1962, Shade’s mad commentator who imagines that he is Charles the Beloved, the last self-exiled king of Zembla) mentions agate type in which the Rachel Jewelry Company in Brooklyn advertised for a jewelry polisher who "must have experience on costume jewelry:"