Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

According to 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), Shade's face reminded one of a fleshy Hogarthian tippler of indeterminate sex:

Describing his life with Charlotte (Lolita's mother) in Ramsdale (a small town in New England), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions Hourglass Lake (a woodlake near Ramsdale):

As he speaks to his wife Charlotte (Lolita's mother), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions Beaver Eaters:

I swallowed my spoonful, wiped my lips with pink paper (Oh, the cool rich linens of Mirana Hotel!) and said:

"I have also a surprise for you, my dear. We two are not going to England.”

According to John Ray, Jr. (in VN's novel Lolita, 1955, the author of the Foreword to Humbert's manuscript), Humbert Humbert had died in legal captivity, of coronary thrombosis, on November 16, 1952, a few days before his trial was scheduled to start:

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), had he not been forestalled by another internal combustion martyr, one of the parts of his book might be called “Dolorés Disparue:”

In VN's novel Lolita (1955) Humbert Humbert's poem "Wanted" (composed in a madhouse near Quebec after Lolita was abducted from him) ends in the line "And the rest is rust and stardust" (an allusion to Hamlet's last words in Shakespeare's Hamlet, 5.2: "The rest is silence"):

Describing his first visit to the Haze house in Ramsdale, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions an old gray tennis ball that lay on an oak chest:

Describing his life with Lolita at Beardsley (a small University town in New England), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions powerful binoculars:

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 in Elphinstone (a small town in the Rocky Mountains) and is hospitalized on Tuesday, June 28, 1949:

Describing the murder of Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer who abducted Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions two flies beside themselves with a dawning sense of unbelievable luck: