Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

In VN’s novel Ada (1969) Demon Veen (Van’s and Ada’s father) hopes that Cordula de Prey will recompense Van for playing Blindman’s Buff all summer with the babes of Ardis Wood (Ada and Lucette):

One of the three blind characters in VN's novel Ada (1969) is a certain Spencer Muldoon:

A teasy problem demanded Dr Veen’s presence in England.

Describing his suicide attempt, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) mentions his Thunderbolt pistol:

On Admiral Tobakoff Lucette (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, Van's and Ada's half-sister) is reading Herb's diary published by his last duchess:

She returned after a brief swim to the sun terrace where Van lay and said:

Describing his performance in variety shows as Mascodagama (when he dances tango on his hands), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) mentions the Ladore, Ladoga, Laguna, Lugano and Luga papers:

Describing Lucette's visit to Kingston, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) mentions old Rattner, resident pessimist of genius:

Describing Lucette's visit to Kingston, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) says that he liked to change his abode at the end of a section or chapter or even paragraph:

Describing Lucette's visit to Kingston, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) mentions one of his old projects, which turned on the Idea of Dimension & Dementia:

At the end of Part Two of VN's novel Ada (1969) Van describes his suicide attempt and Ada quotes the words of Van's nurse "Secondes pensées sont les bonnes:" 

In The Waltz Invention, the English version of VN's play Izobretenie Val'sa (1938), Son (the reporter who runs errands for Waltz and whose name means in Russian "sleep, dream") becomes Trance. In his book Original o portretistakh ("The Model about the Portrait Painters," 1922) Evreinov says that, despite his "trance," "visions" and other psychic peculiarities, William Blake, when he drew his biblical characters, always used himself as a model: