"No Feeva of Discord"
The critic who penned this affectionate appraisal was Umberto Eco, the Italian author and scholar known for such intellectually challenging works as Foucault's Pendulum and The Name of the Rose. Certainly Eco has been far from the only esteemed fan of Krazy Kat and its creator, Herriman; and though at first the affinity between Eco and Krazy Kat might seem incongruous or at best whimsical--rather like T. S. Eliot's affection for house cats--on closer scrutiny, it is entirely appropriate. In the Name of the Rose, after all, blends entertainment with the most challenging of pursuits concerning historical and linguistic mysteries; likewise the questionably gendered Krazy Kat, for all its shenanigans, is remembered as something of a philosopher, one famous for utterances such as "In my Kosmis, there will be no feeva of discord. . . . All my immotions will function in hominy." In the years since Herriman's death, the strip has come to be considered one of the classics of twentieth-century popular culture in America. "This epic lyric is one of the wonders of modern literature, and though it was never very popular, it is now justly considered a classic of the art form," declared Mosaic writer Eyal Amiran.
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