Scott Morrison <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>He makes us glad we can accompany him to Maxime's.

This is, is it not, a reference to the tune "We're going to Maxim's",
which was the inspiration for the infamous theme from Shostakovich's 7th
Symphony (and then appropriated in turn by Bartok in the Concerto for
Orchestra)?

 - seb