Annotations by Alexey Sklyarenko

Describing a game of poker that he played at Chose with Dick C. (a cardsharp) and the French twins, Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions milord's stupidity:

One of the three main characters in VN’s novel Pale Fire (1962), Charles Kinbote (Shade’s mad commentator who imagines that he is Charles the Beloved, the last self-exiled king of Zembla) asks God to rid him of his sexual love for little boys:

Describing the difference between Terra and Antiterra (Earth's twin planet also known as Demonia), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Ada, 1969) mentions the details of the L disaster that happened on Demonia in the beau milieu of the 19th century:

Describing Flavita (the Russian Scrabble), Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) mentions the Gritz (a hotel in Venezia Rossa) and an unfortunate English tourist, Walter C. Keyway, Esq.:

In VN’s novel Ada (1969) Van and Ada find out that they are brother and sister thanks to Marina’s old herbarium that they discovered in the attic of Ardis Hall:

On September 22, 1952, Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in VN's novel Lolita, 1952) receives a letter (dated September 18, 1952) from Lolita (who lives with her husband, Dick Schiller, in Coalmont):

I remember letting myself into my flat and starting to say: Well, at least we shall now track them down - when the other letter began talking to me in a small matter-of-fact voice:

Dear Dad:

Dolores Haze (in VN's novel Lolita, 1955, the heroine's real name) was born in Pisky (a town in the Middle West) on January 1, 1935. In that year twenty-five-year-old Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character in Lolita) married his first wife Valechka (Valeria Zborovski, the daughter of a Polish doctor) in Paris:

In VN's novel Lolita (1955) Humbert Humbert (the narrator and main character) calls his pursuer (Clare Quilty, a playwright and pornographer) "a veritable Proteus of the highway:"

A character in VN's novel Ada (1969), Grace Erminin (Greg's twin sister) marries a Wellington:

In the Kalugano hospital where Van Veen (the narrator and main character in VN’s novel Ada, 1969) recovers from a wound received in a pistol duel with Captain Tapper, of Wild Violet Lodge, Dr Fitzbishop (the Kalugano surgeon) tells Van that poor Philip Rack (the music teacher of Van's and Ada's half-sister Lucette, and a composer of genius) was poisoned by his jealous wife Elsie and that the poison was the not always lethal ‘arethusoides:’