Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

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:

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"):