Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

Describing the L disaster in the beau milieu of the 19th century and the difference between Terra and Antiterra (aka Demonia, Earth's twin planet on which Ada is set), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions Faragod (apparently, the god of electricity):

In his lecture on dreams Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions J. W. Dunne (the author of An Experiment with Time, 1927):

Describing the torments of poor mad Aqua (the twin sister of Van’s, Ada’s and Lucette’s mother Marina), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions the guide who goes on demonstrating as he did this very morning in Florence a silly pillar commemorating, he said, the ‘elmo’ that broke into leaf when they carried stone-heavy-dead St Zeus by it through the gradual, gradual shade:

Describing the torments of poor mad Aqua (the twin sister of Van’s, Ada’s and Lucette’s mother Marina), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions Altar – as Gibraltar is known on Demonia (also known as Antiterra, Earth’s twin planet on which Ada is set):

At the beginning of Canto Three of his poem John Shade (the poet in VN’s novel Pale Fire, 1962) mentions Rabelais’s great Maybe, “the grand potato:”

In VN's novel Lolita (1955) above Humbert’s bed in the Haze house in Ramsdale there is a reproduction of René Prinet’s “Kreutzer Sonata:”

In the Russian version (1967) of VN’s novel Lolita (1955) Gumbert Gumbert (Humbert Humbert in Russian spelling) mentions Princess X who will never go to Italy with Onegin:

Describing Flavita (the Russian Scrabble), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions Ada’s seven ‘luckies’ (the seven letters Ada had taken from the open case where the blocks lay face down):

One of the eleven main characters in VN’s novel Ada (1969) is Daniel Veen (the husband of Van’s, Ada’s and Lucette’s mother Marina):

Upon his arrival at Ardis, Daniel Veen (in VN’s novel Ada, 1969, the husband of Van’s, Ada’s and Lucette’s mother Marina) tells Van that it is going to rain in a few minutes, because it started to rain at Ladore, and the rain takes about half-an-hour to reach Ardis: