SK-B [ to Jansy: are you aware that Zimmer Frames are walking aids for the disabled?]
JM: No! That explain P.Smith's allusion, then. 
 
SK-B: Aunt Maud's 'intact room' ...It's clearly a difficult fad for the poor! The 'open index' is intriguing. We have all the _missing_ words  between 'Moor' and 'Moral.' 'Moot' and 'Mope' spring to mind. Remember the vital importance of _absent_ clues! There may be scope here for  cunning allusional stunts, comparing the M entries in Maud's and  Kinbote's Indexes. NB Neither 'Maud' nor 'Aunt Maud' make Kinbote's index. Discuss. An early spell-checker I worked on would offer useful positional  advice, such as: 'The word 'shit' does not appear in this dictionary but it would fall  between 'shirt' and 'shiver.'
 
JM: Spurred on I decided to check the  open dictionary I'd seen on my way to some other place.Found it and now I realize why it reminded me also of  Shade's brown shoe left outside ( and Coleridge's flower, and La Veneziana's lemon...)
Keeping Stan's advice in mind: Remember the vital importance of _absent_ clues:
 
Aunt Maud's "verse book open at the Index (Moon,/ Moonrise, Moor, Moral)
Shade's, according to Kinbote: (he) " saw that the little table from his study upon which he kept a Bible-like Webster open at M was standing in a state of shock outdoors, on the snow (subliminally this may have participated in the making of lines 5-12)."
 
Funny story about dic-droppings bt. "shirt" and "shiver." Kinbote once complained that not enough attention was paid to magnificent words in Zemblan ( lots of  sound, no fury but...) He cites an example: what can be more resounding, more resplendent, more suggestive of choral and sculptured beauty, than the word coramen? A sculptured coramen anyone?

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