Describing his first physical contact with Lolita, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) calls himself "Humbert the Hound:"
When Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) murders Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer who abducted Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital), the latter tells Humbert that he has not much at the bank right now but that he proposes to borrow - to borrow and to borrow and to borrow (as the Bard said, with that cold in his head):
Describing his first road trip with Lolita across the USA, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions R. L. Stevenson’s footprint on an extinct volcano:
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), Sybil Shade (the poet's wife) used to call him “an elephantine tick; a king-sized botfly; a macaco worm; the monstrous parasite of a genius:”
When Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) murders Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer who abducted Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital), the latter throws back his head in a howl:
Describing his first road trip with Lolita across the USA, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions pink and lilac formations, Pharaonic, phallic, “too prehistoric for words” (blasé Lo):
Describing his state of mind after Lolita's escape from the Elphinstone hospital, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions his daymares and insomnias:
During her second road trip across the USA with Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) Lolita falls ill and on Tuesday, June 28, 1949, is hospitalized in Elphinstone (a small town in the Rocky Mountains):
According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955), in a moment of metaphysical curiosity he had turned over a Protestant’s drab atheism for an old-fashioned popish cure:
