Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

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:

At the end of VN's novel Lolita (1955) Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character) mentions prophetic sonnets:

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, June 28, 1949, is hospitalized in Elphinstone (a small town in the Rocky Mountains):

In his commentary to Shade’s poem 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 Stella Lazurchik, an Americanized Kashube who married a son of Sinyavin, a Russian starover (Old Believer) who migrated from Saratov to Seattle:

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, June 28, 1949, is hospitalized in Elphinstone (a small town in the Rocky Mountains):

Describing Lolita's girlfriends at Beardsley, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions Opal Something and the Humbert open house:

In an attempt to save his life Clare Quilty offers Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) the in folio de-luxe Bagration Island by the explorer and psychoanalyst Melanie Weiss:

Describing his childhood romance with Annabel Leigh, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions the plurality of inhabited worlds:

At the end of his manuscript Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions aurochs and angels:

In his foreword to Humbert Humbert’s manuscript John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) mentions “My Cue,” a biography written by Vivian Darkbloom: