Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

When Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) visits Lolita (now married to Dick Schiller and big with child) in Coalmont, she tells him about her life after her escape from the Elphinstone hospital with Clare Quilty (a playwright and pornographer) and calls Elphinstone (a small town in the Rocky Mountains) "Elephant:"

“Sit down,” she said, audibly striking her flanks with her palms. I relapsed into the black rocker.

“So you betrayed me? Where did you go? Where is he now?”

The characters in VN's novel Lolita (1955) include Dick Schiller (Lolita's husband, veteran of a remote war who is hard of hearing):

At this point, there came brisk homey sounds from the kitchen into which Dick and Bill had lumbered in quest of beer. Through the doorway they noticed the visitor, and Dick entered the parlor.

Describing his quarrel with Lolita in Beardsley, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions prude and prurient Miss East (Miss Finton Lebone) who had been probably protruding three-quarter-way from her bedroom window as she strove to catch the gist of the quarrel:

The characters in VN's novel Lolita (1955) include Mary Lore, a Basque nurse at the Elphinstone hospital:

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 (Clare Quilty's coauthor, anagram of Vladimir Nabokov), to be published shortly:

The characters in VN's novel Lolita (1955) include Dick Schiller (Lolita's husband, veteran of a remote war who is hard of hearing) and his neighbor, a fellow with only one arm:

According to John Ray, Jr. (in VN's novel Lolita, 1955, the author of the Foreword to Humbert Humbert's manuscript), Mrs. “Richard F. Schiller” (Lolita's married name) died in childbed, giving birth to a stillborn girl, on Christmas Day 1952, in Gray Star, a settlement in the remotest Northwest:

Describing his life in Paris in the 1930s, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) compares Monique (a young Parisian prostitute) to a bird:

According to Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955), he seems to share with people in movies the services of the machina telephonica and its sudden god:

Describing his travels with Rita (a girl whom he picked up one depraved May evening in 1950, at a roadside bar between Montreal and New York), Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions some fugitive rhymes that he strung together to amuse her: