I see Calliope in two ways: in one she is a person and a woman, and we are definitely invited to see her as that. But in the other, in her status as a Muse, she is also a resource. So in the same way that Fiddler's Green is a place and a person, she is a resource and a person. She is an idea and a person. And I think that we are only now, as humans, beginning to look at our relationship to resources and to say, when it comes to the ocean or to forests, do these entities have some right to exist? And if so, what rights? How do we negotiate our ability to partake of these resources without destroying the resource itself? So I think actually there's some really interesting legal/ethical thinking that's going on here that's decades ahead of its time.
Alisa Kwitney, Endless: A Sandman Podcast, “Am I The A**hole? (SM#17)”
