Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

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 Rockies) "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 Mona Dahl, Lolita's best friend and confidant at Beardsley:

According to John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955, the author of the Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript), the manuscript that came to his hands was subtitled "the Confession of a White Widowed Male:"  

At the beginning of his manuscript Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth: 

Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul. Lo-lee-ta: the tip of the tongue taking a trip of three steps down the palate to tap, at three, on the teeth. Lo. Lee. Ta. (1.1)

In his Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions his modest work (“Do the Senses make Sense?”) wherein certain morbid states and perversions had been discussed:

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:

In a poem that he makes Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer whom he murders for abducting Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital) read out loud Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions a litter of Lolitas:

In VN's novel Lolita (1955) the list of Lolita's classmates in Ramsdale school includes Stella Fantasia (adorable Stella who has let strangers touch her):

In VN's novel Lolita (1955) Clare Quilty (a fashionable playwright and pornographer whom Humbert Humbert murders for kidnapping Lolita) tells Humbert that he has been called the American Maeterlinck:

According to John Ray, Jr. (in VN's novel Lolita, 1955, the author of the Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript), Mrs. “Richard F. Schiller” (Lolita's married name) died in childbed, giving birth to a stillborn girl, on Christmas Day 1952, in Gray Star, a settlement in the remotest Northwest: