The numbers 342, 42 and 52 recur in Lolita. 342 Lawn Avenue is the address of the Haze house in Ramsdale. 42 is the number of the room at The Enchanted Hunters where Humbert first rapes Lolita. Humbert is 42 at the time of his death. The number 52 also recurs. All the main characters die in 1952. Clare Quilty claims to have written 52 plays. There are 52 cards in a deck, and a deck of cards is often considered a symbol of fate. These numbers have no exact meaning as symbols, but they suggest an almost mystical pattern behind the novel’s plot—a common device in Nabokov’s novels.