Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955), among the pseudonyms he has toyed with before he hit on a particularly apt one was “Mesmer Mesmer:”

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955), among the pseudonyms he has toyed with before he hit on a particularly apt one was "Otto Otto:"

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955), among the pseudonyms he has toyed with before he hit on a particularly apt one was "Lambert Lambert:"

According to John Ray, Jr. (in VN's novel Lolita, 1955, the author of the Foreword to Humbert's manuscript), Mrs. “Richard F. Schiller” (Lolita's married name) died in childbed, giving birth to a stillborn girl, on Christmas Day 1952, in Gray Star, a settlement in the remotest Northwest:

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955), among the pseudonyms he has toyed with before he hit on a particularly apt one was "Lambert Lambert:"

At the end of his manuscript Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) says that the only immortality Lolita and he may share is the refuge of art and mentions prophetic sonnets:

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), he can distinguish in Annabel Leigh (Humbert's childhood love) the initial fateful elf in his life:

One of the chapters in VN's novel Lolita (1955) ends in the sentence "But there was no Charlotte in the living room:"

In his pocket diary that he kept at Ramsdale as Charlotte's lodger Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) says that Lolita became interested in the nightmare curlicues he had penned on a sheet of paper:

In his pocket diary that he kept at Ramsdale as Charlotte's lodger Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions the hideous hieroglyphics of his fatal lust: