A. Sklyarenko: "Marina's affair with Demon Veen started on his, her, and Daniel
Veen's birthday, January 5, 1868, when she was twenty-four and both Veens
thirty." (Ada, Part One, 2). January 5 was, I believe, Vera Nabokov's
birthday.
JM: These relationships between calendar
days, characters and real people are sometimes puzzling. Without checking
it in the text... didn't Demon's airplane crash in April 23?
Sandy Klein and Barrie Karp sent links
to different blogs. I extracted one sentence from one of them, but I shall
refrain from making any comments:
"In Nabokov's book, Humbert had cultivated a deep passion
for the elves in fairytale when he was young, resulting in his deprivation of
real childhood playmates."
(from http://www.mysinchew.com/node/50816
Lolita complex Opinion 2011-01-04 18:43 by TAY TIAN YAN,
Translated by DOMINIC LOH)
Nabokov was right when
he once noted that it's Lolita who is famous, not
he.