Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

Describing Hugh Person's meeting with Armande in Witt (a Swiss mountain resort), the narrators of VN's novel Transparent Things (1972) mention the hero's interview with the mirror:

Friday morning. A quick Coke. A belch. A hurried shave. He put on his ordinary clothes, throwing in the turtleneck for style. Last interview with the mirror. He plucked a black hair out of a red nostril.

Describing the odd Boschean death of Daniel Veen (Van's and Ada's Uncle Dan, the father of Van's and Ada's half-sister Lucette), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions a few last drops of ‘play-zero’ that nurse Bellabestia (Bess) managed to extract orally out of Dan's poor body:

Describing his reunion with Ada in December 1892, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions two unrelated gypsy courtesans, a wild girl in a gaudy lolita, poppy-mouthed and black-downed, picked up in a café between Grasse and Nice, and another, a part-time model, aptly nicknamed Swallowtail by the patrons of a Norfolk Broads floramor:

In society, Daniel Veen (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, Van's and Ada's Uncle Dan, the father of Van's and Ada's half-sister Lucette) is known as Durak Walter or simply Red Veen:

In his lecture on dreams Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions Walter Raleigh’s decapitated trunk still topped by the image of his wetnurse:

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 in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions mental panic and physical pain joining their black-ruby hands:

When Lucette (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, Van's and Ada's half-sister) visits Van at Kingston (Van's American University), Van tells her that Cordula (Van's former mistress) is now Mrs. Ivan G. Tobak and that they are making follies in Florence:

In VN's novel Lolita (1955) Mona Dahl (Lolita's best friend and confidant at Beardsley) asks Humbert Humbert to tell her about Ball Zack:

Dolores Haze (in VN's novel Lolita, 1955, Lolita's full name) was born on January 1, 1935, in Pisky (an invented small town in Midwest whose name seems to hint at the zodiac constellation Pisces):

During Humbert Humbert's and Lolita's second road trip across the USA, Lolita (the title character of a novel, 1955, by VN) is hospitalized in Elphinstone and abducted from the hospital by Clare Quilty (the playwright who tells the hospital staff that he is Humbert's brother):