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* [[Author Appeal]]: References to butterflies, like every one of Nabokov's books.
* [[Author Avatar]]: Near the end, implied to be [[It Makes Sense in Context|one of Kinbote's layers.]]
* [[Author Existence Failure]]: Shade is killed before he can write Line 1000 of his poem, but Kinbote helpfully tells us what it must have been. {{spoiler|It is also implied that Kinbote commits suicide before he finishes his index.}}
* [[Bilingual Bonus]]: "Zembla" is an old way of transcribing Земля (today generally transcribed ''zemlya'' or ''zemlja''), which means "land" in Nabokov's native Russian. It's also a reference to ''[[The Prisoner of Zenda]]''.
* [[Completely Missing the Point]]: Kinbote throughout the entire book.