According to 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), onhava-onhava means in Zemblan "far, far away:"
Showing to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) her house, Charlotte Haze (Lolita's mother) mentions her lilies:
In his foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript John Ray, Jr. (a character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions his colleague, Dr. Blanche Schwarzmann:
Describing his first physical contact with Lolita, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) calls himself "Humbert the Hound:"
When Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) murders Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer who abducted Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital), the latter tells Humbert that he has not much at the bank right now but that he proposes to borrow - to borrow and to borrow and to borrow (as the Bard said, with that cold in his head):
Describing his first road trip with Lolita across the USA, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions R. L. Stevenson’s footprint on an extinct volcano:
According to 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), Sybil Shade (the poet's wife) used to call him “an elephantine tick; a king-sized botfly; a macaco worm; the monstrous parasite of a genius:”
When Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) murders Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer who abducted Lolita from the Elphinstone hospital), the latter throws back his head in a howl:
Describing his first road trip with Lolita across the USA, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions pink and lilac formations, Pharaonic, phallic, “too prehistoric for words” (blasé Lo):
