Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

In a poem that, according to spectral narrators of VN's novel Transparent Things (1972), Hugh Person had published in a college magazine the sun is setting a heavenly example to the lake:

According to the spectral narrators of VN's novel Transparent Things (1972), at the beginning of a poem that Hugh Person (the main character in Transparent Things) had published in a college magazine suspension dots were mentioned:

The main character in VN's novel Transparent Things (1972), Hugh Person is the son of Henry Emery Person:

At the picnic on Ada's sixteenth birthday Mlle Larivière (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, the governess of Van's and Ada's half-sister Lucette) mentions an English novel of high repute in which a lady is given a perfume called "Ombre Chevalier," which, according to Mlle Larivière, is really nothing but a fish:

Describing the picnic on Ada's twelfth birthday, when he walked on his hands for the first time, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) mentions his adult incapacity to ‘shrug’ things off and wonders if it was only physical or did it ‘correspond’ to some archetypal character of his ‘undersoul:’

Describing the difference between Terra and Antiterra (Earth's twin planet also known as Demonia), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions Faragod (apparently, the god of electricity):

The action in VN's novel Ada (1969) takes place on Demonia, Earth's twin planet also known as Antiterra. Describing the phenomenon of the Terra planet, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in Ada) says that minds bien rangés (not apt to unhobble hobgoblins) rejected Terra as a fad or a fantom, and deranged minds (ready to plunge into any abyss) accepted it in support and token of their own irrationality:

The narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada (1969), Van Veen spends two summers, the summer of 1884 and that of 1888, at Ardis, the family estate of Daniel Veen (Van's and Ada's Uncle Dan). According to Mlle Larivière (the governess of Van's and Ada's half-sister Lucette, Daniel Veen's daughter), Ardis means in Greek "point of an arrow." On the other hand, the toponym Ardis seems to hint at paradise.

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), King Alfin (the father of Charles the Beloved) was given his cognomen by Amphitheatricus, a not unkindly writer of fugitive poetry in the liberal gazettes: 

In his commentary and index 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) mentions King Thurgus the Third, surnamed the Turgid (the grandfather of Charles the Beloved), and his mistress Iris Acht (a celebrated actress):