Listen:

Odradek

Howard Bloom has become unstuck in time

Sredni Vashtar

He and Harold Bloom share a cage on Tralfamadore, not because they are literally expected to mate by their zookeepers, but because it is understood that their meeting of minds shall produce an egregore of Peak Rockist Modernism which they intend to study and perhaps, ultimately, parry into a defensive weapon against the depredations of less couth cultures.