Is it necessary to add anything to M.L. Gasparov’s letter?..

“31.5.01. Dear Evgeniy Vladimirovich, sincere thanks to you from the probable prototype. In the second grade, my enlightened peers teased me about Doctor Gaspar, and I only deciphered this in the fourth grade: Olesha was then inaccessible. It’s nice to think that in the next generation someone will also be teased like this. It’s also nice that I also noticed Chita Ithaca: there is about it in “Records and Extracts” (and if they have a continuation, I’ll write: Akanye. Aligarh, a city in India near Agra). Having received the book, I put everything aside and spent a full day working on it - I don’t remember anything like that. I assure you that not out of prototypical vanity, but out of universal human pleasure. I will wait for the finale. Devoted to you G.Sh. (M.L. Gasparov)"