Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

Describing Lolita's illness and hospitalization in Elphinstone (a small town in the Rocky Mountains), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions some “serum” (sparrow’s sperm or dugong’s dung) to which Lolita's young organism splendidly reacted:

According to the protagonist of VN's novel Lolita (1955), Humbert Humbert tried hard to be good:  

In his pocket diary that he kept at Ramsdale as Charlotte's lodger Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) calls himself "Humbert the Hoarse:"

In his pocket diary that he kept at Ramsdale as Charlotte's lodger Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions the hideous hieroglyphics of his fatal lust:

According to John Ray, Jr. (in VN's novel Lolita, 1955, the author of the Foreword to Humbert's manuscript), Humbert Humbert had died in legal captivity, of coronary thrombosis, on November 16, 1952, a few days before his trial was scheduled to start:

Describing his talk with Miss Pratt (the headmistress of the Beardsley School for Girls), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) compares the smoke Miss Pratt exhaled from her nostrils to a pair of tusks:

Describing Lolita's illness and hospitalization in Elphinstone (a small town in the Rocky Mountains), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions poor Bluebeard:

Describing his life with Lolita, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) says that he dwelled deep in his elected paradise - a paradise whose skies were the color of hell-flames - but still a paradise:

Describing his life with Lolita in Beardsley (a small University town in New England), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) says that he did his best to tackle the problem of boys:

I did my best, your Honour, to tackle the problem of boys. Oh, I used even to read in the Beardsley Star a so-called Column for Teens, to find out how to behave!

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), his father had a dash of the Danube in his veins: