Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

The characters in VN's novel Ada (1969) include Kim Beauharnais, a kitchen boy and photographer at Ardis whom Van Veen (the narrator and main character) blinds for spying on him and Ada and attempting to blackmail Ada. Describing Kim Beauharnais's album, Van calls Kim "Bewhorny:"

In VN's novel Ada (1969), Van and Ada make love for the first time in the Night of the Burning Barn:

Describing John Shade's last birthday, 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 a buchmann, a little pillar of library books forgotten by Sybil Shade (the poet's wife):

Telling about the activities of Gradus (Shade's murderer) in Switzerland, 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) describes Gradus’ visit to Joe Lavender’s villa Libitina:

 

The characters in VN's novel Pale Fire (1962) include Joe Lavender, the owner of Villa Libitina visited by Jakob Gradus (Shade's murderer) in Switzerland:

During her second road trip with Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) across the USA, Lolita falls ill and on Tuesday, 28 June 1949, is hospitalized in Elphinstone (a small town in the Rocky Mountains). Visiting Lolita at the hospital, Humbert Humbert asks her if the staff is feeding her well:

During her second road trip with Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) across the USA, Lolita falls ill and on Tuesday, 28 June 1949, is hospitalized in Elphinstone (a small town in the Rocky Mountains). Describing Lolita's hospitalization and his stay at Silver Spur Court, Elphinstone, Humbert Humbert mentions some "serum" (sparrow's sperm or dugong's dung) to which Lolita splendidly reacted and a sparrow that perched on the saddle of the landlady's bike:

Describing his first night with Lolita in The Enchanted Hunters (a hotel in Briceland), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) says that his only regret is that he did not quietly deposit key “342” at the office, and leave the town, the country, the continent, the hemisphere, - indeed, the globe - that very same night:

When Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) and Lolita play tennis in a Colorado resort between Snow and Elphinstone, a red-haired fellow (Bill Mead) and his girlfriend (Fay Page, actress) join them:

Describing his walks with John Shade (the poet in VN's novel Pale Fire, 1962), Charles Kinbote (Shade's mad commentator who imagines that he is Charles the Beloved, the last self-exiled king of Zembla) quotes the words of Paul Hentzner’s little son, “here Papa pisses” (a play on Pippa Passes, the title of a 1841 verse drama by Robert Browning, 1812-1889):