Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

Describing his visit to Ivor Quilty (the Ramsdale dentist), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentally tells Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer whom Humbert murders for abducting Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital) “Réveillez-vous, Laqueue, il est temps de mourir!  (Wake up, Laqueue, it is time to die!):"

Describing his visit to Ivor Quilty (the Ramsdale dentist), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) says that he had been keeping Clare Quilty’s face masked in his dark dungeon, where Quilty (a playwright and pornographer whom Humbert murders for abducting Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital) was waiting for him to come with barber and priest:

Describing his second road trip with Lolita across the USA, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) exclaims "O lente currite noctis equi! (O softly run, nightmares!):"

In her class list at the Ramsdale school Dolores Haze (in VN's novel Lolita, 1955, Lolita’s full name) occupies a place between two Roses (Hamilton, Mary Rose and Honeck, Rosaline):

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955), Miss Phalen broke her hip in Savannah, Ga., on the very day he arrived in Ramsdale and moved in the Haze house:

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:

On the porch of The Enchanted Hunters (in VN's novel Lolita, 1955, a hotel in Briceland where Humbert and Lolita spend their first night together) a stranger (Clare Quilty) tells Humbert that his child needs a lot of sleep and that sleep is a rose, as the Persians say:

Describing his visit to Ivor Quilty (the Ramsdale dentist), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentally tells Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer whom Humbert murders for abducting Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital) “Réveillez-vous, Laqueue, il est temps de mourir!  (Wake up, Laqueue, it is time to die!):"

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) mentions Butler’s Academy for Boys and their annual ball:

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!

In the Russian Lolita (1967) John Ray's Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript is dated August 5, 1955:

Джон Рэй, д-р философии

Видворт, Массачусетс

5 августа 1955 года