Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

Describing his quarrel with Lolita, 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, a veteran of the distant 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:

Describing his childhood, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1955) mentions the splendid Hotel Mirana that revolved around him as a kind of private universe, a whitewashed cosmos within the blue greater one that blazed outside:

In VN's novel Lolita (1955) the list of Lolita's classmates in Ramsdale school includes Stella Fantasia (adorable Stella who has let strangers touch her). On 24 September 1952 (the day on which Humbert Humbert revisits Ramsdale), Murphy marries Fantasia: