[1][2][3] "Music from the Pillar" together with the stories "The Reconstructor", "Weapon of Retaliation" and "Kreger’s Revelation" constitute a single cycle of works in the alternative history genre.

[4][5] Matvey, along with two colleagues, has a desire to drink vodka at the beginning of his work day, but since the store is closed and there is no money, they decide to expand their consciousness by eating fly mushrooms.

This is where the character's split consciousness occurs: Matvei becomes Himmler riding in an armored truck with Hitler, but at the same time he continues to be himself.

So let us finally adopt a way of looking at things that will restore simplicity to the world, and that will enable us to live in it without the fear of the nostalgia that awaits us around every tomorrow's corner...".

[8][9] "Music from the Pillar" echoes another of Pelevin's short stories, "Kreger's Revelation" where Himmler said, "Did you ever happen to dream that you were driving in the back of a rundown truck to some unknown place, and there were some monsters sitting around you?"