Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

Explaning a cryptic hydrogram from Chicago, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) tells his father that he has to see a mad girl artist called Doris or Odris who draws only gee-gees and sugar daddies:

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), the disguised king arrived in America descending by parachute:

Describing Gradus' visit to Joe Lavender's Villa Libitina, 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 photographs of the artistic type called in French ombrioles collected by Joe Lavender:

At the end of his poem John Shade (the poet in VN's poem Pale Fire, 1962) says that the day (the last day of Shade's life) has passed in a sustained low hum of harmony:

Gently the day has passed in a sustained

Low hum of harmony. The brain is drained

And a brown ament, and the noun I meant

To use but did not, dry on the cement.

Maybe my sensual love for the consonne

D'appui, Echo's fey child, is based upon

A feeling of fantastically planned,

At the end of his poem John Shade (the poet in VN's poem Pale Fire, 1962) says that the day (the last day of Shade's life) has passed in a sustained low hum of harmony:

Gently the day has passed in a sustained

Low hum of harmony. The brain is drained

And a brown ament, and the noun I meant

To use but did not, dry on the cement.

Maybe my sensual love for the consonne

D'appui, Echo's fey child, is based upon

A feeling of fantastically planned,

The action in VN's novel Ada (1969) takes place on Demonia, Earth's twin planet also known as Antiterra. Describing the torments of poor mad Aqua (the twin sister of Van's, Ada's and Lucette's mother Marina), Van Veen (the narrator and main character) mentions the rosy remoteness of Terra (Terra the Fair, Aqua's real destination):

Describing the torments of poor mad Aqua (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, the twin sister of Van's, Ada's and Lucette's mother Marina), Van Veen mentions rearrangement for melodeon of all the cacophonies of all the divinities and divines ever spawned in the marshes of this our sufficient world:

Describing his dinner with Ada and her family in Bellevue Hotel in Mont Roux in October 1905, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) says that Andrey Vinelander (Ada's husband) resembled Kosygin, the mayor of Yukonsk: 

Finally Van reached Ada’s husband.

Describing the torments of poor mad Aqua (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, the twin sister of Van's, Ada's and Lucette's mother Marina), Van Veen says that two or three centuries earlier Aqua might have been just another consumable witch:

The characters in VN’s novel Ada (1969) include Dr Fitzbishop, a surgeon at the Kalugano hospital where Van Veen (the narrator and main character) recovers from the wound received in a pistol duel with Captain Tapper, of Wild Violet Lodge.