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michaelboy) wrote2025-02-21 10:08 am
michaelboy) wrote2025-02-21 10:08 am
Love Sense
George Herriman had a comic strip in the early 1900's called Krazy Kat
Krazy Kat (the heroine) was madly in love with Ignatz Mouse(the villian). Ignatz Mouse would simply throw bricks at Krazy Kat. In spite of that, Krazy Kat still loved Ignatz deeply. Offissa Pupp (the hero) would put Ignatz Mouse in jail for being so cruel - Offissa Pupp loved and wanted to protect Krazy Kat.
e.e. cummings wrote:
The sensical law of this world is might makes right; the nonsensical law of our heroine is love
conquers all. To put the oak in the acorn: Ignatz Mouse and Offissa Pupp (each completely convinced that his own particular brand of might makes right) are simple-minded--Krazy isn't--therefore, to Offissa Pupp and Ignatz Mouse, Krazy is. But if both our hero and our villain don't and can't understand our heroine, each of them can and each of them does misunderstand her differently. To our softhearted altruist, she is the adorably helpless incarnation of saintliness. To our hardhearted egoist, she is the puzzlingly indestructible embodiment of idiocy. The benevolent overdog sees her as an inspired weakling. The malevolent undermouse views her as a born target. Meanwhile Krazy Kat, through this double misunderstanding, fulfills her joyous destiny.
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