Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

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), his landlord, Judge Goldsworth, resembles a Medusa-locked hag:

Describing his rented house, 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 four sets of different Children's Encyclopedias:

Describing his second arrival at Ardis in June 1888, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) calls Percy de Prey (a country gentleman who courts Ada) "a stoutish, foppish, baldish young man:"

The narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada (1969), Van Veen is the author of Letters from Terra, ‘a philosophical novel:’

Ada’s letters breathed, writhed, lived; Van’s Letters from Terra, ‘a philosophical novel,’ showed no sign of life whatsoever.

(I disagree, it’s a nice, nice little book! Ada’s note.)

Describing his last visit to Villa Venus (Eric Veen's floramors), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) mentions a maidservant, Princess Kachurin:

Describing the King’s escape from Zembla, 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 a steinmann (a heap of stones erected as a memento of an ascent) that had donned a cap of red wool in his honor:

Describing the King’s escape from Zembla, 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 shpiks [plainclothesmen]:

Describing the King’s escape from Zembla, 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 a Russian tourist who told his wife that the cause of a native's frightful disfigurement must have been the explosion at the Glass Works in 1951:

Describing the picnic on Ada's sixteenth birthday, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) makes fun of a cliché "the conversation became general:"

On the day preceding the one on which he leaves Ardis forever Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) takes several dips in the swimming pool: