Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

Describing his life in Paris with his first wife Valeria, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) calls Valeria "a large, puffy, short-legged, big-breasted and practically brainless baba:"

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, she offers him a smoke and is smoking herself:

“Sit down,” she said, audibly striking her flanks with her palms. I relapsed into the black rocker.

“So you betrayed me? Where did you go? Where is he now?”

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, she offers him a smoke and is smoking herself:

“Sit down,” she said, audibly striking her flanks with her palms. I relapsed into the black rocker.

“So you betrayed me? Where did you go? Where is he now?”

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, Lolita calls her husband "a lamb:"

She was, as I say, talking. It now came in a relaxed flow. He was the only man she had ever been crazy about. What about Dick? Oh, Dick was a lamb, they were quite happy together, but she meant something different. And I  had never counted, of course?

Describing his first night with Lolita in The Enchanted Hunters (a hotel in Briceland), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions a girl of Lolita's age in the hotel lobby and her cow-like mother:

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, she tells him about her life after her escape from the Elphinstone hospital with Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer) and calls Elphinstone (a small town in the Rocky Mountains) "Elephant:"

“Sit down,” she said, audibly striking her flanks with her palms. I relapsed into the black rocker.

“So you betrayed me? Where did you go? Where is he now?”

The characters in VN's novel Lolita (1955) include Dick Schiller (Lolita's husband, veteran of a remote war who is hard of hearing):

At this point, there came brisk homey sounds from the kitchen into which Dick and Bill had lumbered in quest of beer. Through the doorway they noticed the visitor, and Dick entered the parlor.

Describing his quarrel with Lolita in Beardsley, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions prude and prurient Miss East (Miss Finton Lebone) who had been probably protruding three-quarter-way from her bedroom window as she strove to catch the gist of the quarrel:

The characters in VN's novel Lolita (1955) include Mary Lore, a Basque nurse at the Elphinstone hospital:

In his Foreword to Humbert Humbert’s manuscript John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions 'My Cue,' a biography written by Vivian Darkbloom (Clare Quilty's coauthor, anagram of Vladimir Nabokov), to be published shortly: