Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

The characters in VN's novel Lolita (1955) include Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer whom Humbert Humbert murders for abducting Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital).

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

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:

Describing his life with Rita, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions Rita’s brother, the mayor and boaster of Grainball:

Describing his life with Rita, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) quotes Rita's words "going round and round, like a God-damn mulberry moth:"

Describing Shade’s murder by Gradus, 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 the baton of life passed to him by Shade in a sublime relay race:

Describing his stay in Elphinstone (a small town in the Rockies where Lolita falls ill and is hospitalized on Tuesday, June 28, 1949), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions the haute montagne (high mountains) and Aurora (the goddess of dawn in Roman mythology and Latin poetry):

When Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) visits Lolita (who fell ill and was hospitalized in Elphinstone, a small town in the Rocky Mountains) at the hospital, she thanks him for the flowers he brought her and asks him to cut out the French: 

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), there would be little sense in analyzing the three empty years that followed Lolita's abduction from the Elphinstone hospital:”

When Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) visits Lolita (now married to Dick Schiller and big with child) in Coalmont (a small mining town) on September 23, 1952, she tells him that Duk Duk Ranch to which Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer) took her had burned down to the ground: