Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

At the family dinner in "Ardis the Second" Marina (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, Van's, Ada's and Lucette's mother) asks Demon (Van's and Ada's father) if his room number at the hotel is not 222 by any chance:

‘I had hoped you’d sleep here,’ said Marina (not really caring one way or another). ‘What is your room number at the hotel — not 222 by any chance?’

After Van’s and Ada’s death Ronald Oranger (in VN’s novel Ada, 1969, old Van’s secretary, the editor of Ada) marries Violet Knox (old Van’s typist whom Ada calls Fialochka, 'little Violet'):

In March 1905 Demon Veen (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, Van's and Ada's father) perishes in a mysterious airplane disaster above the Pacific. In the same year, soon after his father's death, Van is elected to the Rattner Chair of Philosophy in the University of Kingston:

Describing Lucette's visit to Kingston (Van's American University), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) quotes old Rattner's words 'You will "sturb," Van, with an alliteration on your lips:’

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955), Gaston Godin (Humbert's chess partner at Beardsley) got involved in a sale histoire, in Naples of all places:

In March 1905 Demon Veen (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, Van's and Ada's father) perishes in a mysterious airplane disaster above the Pacific. In the same year, soon after his father's death, Van is elected to the Rattner Chair of Philosophy in the University of Kingston:

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 shiver of alfear (uncontrollable fear caused by elves) that ran between his shoulderblades:

In his Foreword to Shade's poem 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) calls Shade "my beloved old conjurer:"

According to Professor Hurley, the chief passion of Samuel Shade (the poet’s father in VN’s novel Pale Fire, 1962) was the study of the feathered tribe:

Describing his meetings with Ada (now married to Andrey Vinelander) in October 1905, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions Dorothy Vinelander (Ada's sister-in-law) and her contralto: