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Brian Boyd

In 1979 Boyd completed a PhD at the University of Toronto with a dissertation on Vladimir Nabokov’s novel Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle, in the context of Nabokov’s epistemology, ethics, and metaphysics.

Vineland

Vineland may be a play on the word "Hollywood", a reference to the first Viking settlement in North America, Vinland, or a reference to Andrey Vinelander, a character in Vladimir Nabokov's Ada or Ardor: A Family Chronicle.

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"'Estotiland' is listed, along with Eden and Arcadia, under the heading 'utopia, paradise, heaven, heaven on earth' in Roget's International Thesaurus (New York: Crowell, 1962)"; it is one of the sources for "'Russian' Estoty" in Vladimir Nabokov's Ada.

Lolita, Texas

In the Vladimir Nabokov novel Ada, or Ardor, in a letter to Marina after his duel with Baron D'Onsky, Demon Veen tells her that he had gone to his aunt's ranch near Lolita, Texas.

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