More allusions to Ilf and Petrov's "The Golden Calf"
in chapter 3, Part One, of Ada:
Aqua's last doctor, Sig Heiler, is said to be an
agent or double of Dr Froit of Signy-Mondieu-Mondieu. In "The Golden Calf"
(chapter VIII: “Crisis of the Genre”)
Ostap Bender tells Khvorobiev that he happened to treat people using
Freudian method and, in a conversation with his landlord, Vasisualiy
Lokhankin, Bender uses the phrase "mon Dieu" and then repeats
it in German: "mein Gott" (chapter XV: “Antlers and Hooves;"
see in Zembla my article on the leporine family of doctors in
Ada).
Alexey Sklyarenko