Much Thanks, Mr. Nabokov

[Keith]

Lolita was an inside the park homer. ADA is a grand slam.

As I was rereading it recently I was wondering if the choice of the  
name "Ada" and the description of the approach to Ardis Hall were a  
nod to Dickens, then this sentence popped up:

The astorium in St Taurus, or whatever it was called (who cares—one  
forgets little things very fast, when afloat in infinite non- 
thingness) was, perhaps, more modern, with a more refined desertic  
view, than the Mondefroid bleakhouse horsepittle, but in both places  
a demented patient could outwit in one snap an imbecile pedant.