Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

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:

Describing his stay with Lolita in The Enchanted Hunters (a hotel in Briceland where Humbert and Lolita spend their first night together), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) exclaims “Oh, Fame! Oh, Femina!”:

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

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.”

Describing his second road trip with Lolita across the USA, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions the famous, oddly shaped, splendidly flushed rock (Red Rock in Elphinstone, a small town in the Rocky Mountains) which jutted above the mountains and had been the take-off for nirvana on the part of a temperamental show girl:

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

On Tuesday, September 23, 1952, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) visits Dolly Schiller (Lolita's married name) in Coalmont (a small mining town where Lolita, now married to Dick Schiller and big with child, lives with her husband). Lolita tells Humbert that Duk Duk Ranch to which Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer) took her had everything but everything, even an indoor waterfall:

Describing his visit to Coalmont (a small mining town where Lolita, now married to Dick Schiller and big with child, lives with her husband) on Tuesday, September 23, 1952, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) says: "finis, my friends, finis, my fiends:"

In VN's novel Zashchita Luzhina ("The Luzhin's Defense," 1930) the guests at a party thrown by Luzhin's wife include a plain-looking man named Petrov:

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: