NPPF: Canto Two -- Lolita

[Jasper Fidget]

Several references to _Lolita_ in Canto Two:

ln 254: "In April's haze immediately behind"

Charlotte and Dolores ("Lolita") Haze, not to mention Hazel Shade.  _Lolita_
wasn't "immediately behind" _Pale Fire_ in composition dates (_Pnin_ is in
the middle); perhaps he means in quality?

ln 270: "My dark Vanessa, crimson-barred, my blest"

Vanessa Van Ness in _Lolita_ ("fat, powdered Mrs. Leigh", mother of little
Annabel, "a certain initial girl-child.").

ln 274-275: see K's "false start" following ln 274 on page 174: "I like my
name: Shade, _Ombre_, almost 'man' / In Spanish . . ."

A link to Humbert Humbert: Shade in Latin is "umbra", close to "Humbert", as
is "hombre", Spanish for man.  "Ombre" is also a 17th century card game.
(Okay, premature -- sorry, I couldn't help it.)

ln 408: "A male hand traced from Florida to Maine": 

See repetition on ln 680: "Lolita swept from Florida to Maine"

ln 413: "A nymph came pirouetting, under white"

See pg 202 for variant: "A nymphet pirouetted"; more abstraction into art
and the "real" world, in this case VN's own.

Jasper