Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

In his Foreword 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 two charming identical twins:

Describing his plans to marry Charlotte (Lolita's mother), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) calls himself "Humbert the Cubus" (a play on "incubus," a word used by Humbert at the end of the preceding paragraph):

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:

In VN's novel Lolita (1955), John Ray, Jr.'s Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript ends as follows:

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

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 he has but followed nature and calls himself "nature’s faithful hound:"

Describing his life with Lolita, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Lolita, 1955) several times mentions his tic nerveux: 

The characters in VN's novel Lolita (1955) include Dr. Blue, the chief physician in the Elphinstone hospital who tells Humbert Humbert that in a couple of days Lolita (who fell ill and on June 28, 1949, was hospitalized in Elphinstone, a small town in the Rocky Mountains) will be “skipping” again:

According to John Ray, Jr. (in VN's novel Lolita, 1955, the author of the Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript), the manuscript that came to his hands was subtitled "the Confession of a White Widowed Male:"  

The characters in VN's novel Lolita (1955) include Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer whom Humbert Humbert murders for abducting Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital).