Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

Describing the poltergeist phenomena in Shade's 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 one of Aunt Maud's oils (Cypress and Bat):

Describing his life with Lolita at Beardsley, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions a Dr. Ilse Tristramson:

In his diary Gumbert Gumbert (Humbert Humbert's name in the Russian Lolita, 1967) calls Lolita's mother gnusnaya Geyzikha:

Describing the childhood travels of Ada and Lucette with their mother, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions Marina’s friend, the theatrical big shot, Gran D. du Mont:

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), his mother was a granddaughter of two Dorset parsons, experts in obscure subjects - paleopedology and Aeolian harps, respectively:

In his Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions his colleague, Dr. Blanche Schwarzmann:

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), his father had a dash of the Danube in his veins:

In VN’s novel Lolita (1955) Clare Quilty (the playwright who abducts Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital) resembles Gustave Trapp, Humbert Humbert’s Swiss uncle:

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), as many old glaziers, Gradus (Shade's murderer) could deduce rather accurately water temperature from certain indices of brilliancy and motion:

In Canto Three of his poem John Shade (the poet in VN's novel Pale Fire, 1962) describes IPH (a lay Institute of the Preparation for Hereafter) and mentions the great Starover Blue (the College astronomer) who reviewed the role planets had played as landfalls of the soul:

We heard cremationists guffaw and snort

At Grabermann's denouncing the Retort

As detrimental to the birth of wraiths.

We all avoided criticizing faiths.