"Jitterbug Perfume" is an epic. which is to say, it begins in the
forests of ancient Bohemia and doesn't conclude until nine o'clock
tonight [Paris time]. It is a saga, as well. A saga must have a hero,
and the hero of this one is a janitor with a missing bottle. The bottle
is blue, very, very old, and embossed with the image of a goat-horned
god. If the liquid in the bottle is actually is the secret essence of
the universe, as some folks seem to think, it had better be discovered
soon becaused it is leaking and there is only a drop of two left.