This novel contains a dramatic interlude in which Hazel tries to tell her parents about a "talking light," called The Haunted Barn.
The narrator of this novel imagines the "body's obliteration in the Lap of the Lord" while defending falling to one's death as the ideal form of suicide. While attempting a vertical loop in a monoplane, a man in this work named Alfin the Vague flies straight into a hotel. Another character in this novel becomes vegetarian after he reads about the mutilation of Mussolini's body in a public square. This novel contains a dramatic interlude in which Hazel tries to tell her parents about a "talking light," called The Haunted Barn. A (*) poet in this work writes that his essay collection The Untamed Seahorse sold three hundred copies in a year. That poet also notes his delight at seeing snow "out in that crystal land" in a work that claims he was a "waxwing slain by the false azure in the windowpane." This novel is structured as the commentary of a Zemblan scholar on a work by John Shade. For 10 points, name this work by Vladimir Nabokov in which Charles Kinbote annotates the titular 999-line poem. 
The narrator of this novel imagines the "body's obliteration in the Lap of the Lord" while defending falling to one's death as the ideal form of suicide.
Pale Fire