A Harmonium In The Caves Of Mercury

In the Sirens Of Titan www.dvrhs.org/cms/lib2/NJ01001… Kurt Vonegut jnr described 'harmoniums' as being brightly coloured kite shaped animals that derived energy from the vibrations of mercuryquakes deep beneath that planet's surface. Unk, who has been trapped on Mercury by Winston Niles Rumfoord, the chronosyclasticaly infundibulated astronaut, keeps them as pets and 'feeds' them with attenuated music, like this song by Ivor Cutler www.youtube.com/watch?v=LddPuh… who, appropriately enough, accompanies himself on the harmonium.