And I'm more late than anyone else. I'd like to point out that Melpomene isn't really in on the whole sisterly lovin' thing. She doesn't like her sisters very much, particularly since the promiscuous one seduced her old lover, and hasn't talked to them outside of Milliways since maybe the 1800s. She's now in New York, 2008.

Melpomene likes traveling to where the big thoughts are. During the Golden Age, obviously, she was still in Greece. During the Renaissance, she was all over Europe. In the early 1900s, she was in Hollywood.

These days, she lurks in coffeehouses and bars and looks for the poets. The good poets. There aren't many with the passion and understanding, but where they are, Melpomene seizes and inspires.