. >> because nabokov references the case in the text.very late in the novel, he returns to original town where he first meets delores hayes, where he had married her mother and that was a disaster, understand by, because the wasn't interested in her. so many years passed. del lower race is elsewhere. -- delores is elsewhere. he comes back and is trying in figure out things and as he is wandering through the town, and thinks hat i don to dolly about frank went to sally horner, there it was like a neon sign in the text, and yet i, who first read lolita at the image of 16, had just never really realized it was there. and all the while i was write thing book i would ask people did you know there's phrase wag lolita and with the exception of one person, everyone said, no, and thing is there's so many other things going on in lolita from a language standpoint, from a style standpoint and it's a brilliant novel and you almost get distracted by the shiny baubles of the language. so of course people miss this. nabokov had a recent for leaving thi