Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

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):

Describing the rogues’ gallery at the Wace Post Office, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) suggests a cinematic trick:

In VN's novel Lolita (1955) Humbert Humbert is tempted to drown his wife Charlotte (Lolita's mother) in Hourglass Lake:

Before the family dinner in "Ardis the Second" Demon Veen (in VN's novel Ada, 1969, Van's and Ada's father) recalls his trip to Akapulkovo:

Demon shed his monocle and wiped his eyes with the modish lace-frilled handkerchief that lodged in the heart pocket of his dinner jacket. His tear glands were facile in action when no real sorrow made him control himself.

‘You look quite satanically fit, Dad. Especially with that fresh oeillet in your lapel eye. I suppose you have not been much in Manhattan lately — where did you get its last syllable?’

Dolores Haze (in VN's novel Lolita, 1955, Lolita's full name) was born on January 1, 1935:

Describing a game of poker that he played at Chose with Dick C. (a cardsharp) and the French twins, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions milord's stupidity: