Setting
The New Muses inhabit a desert region called Kokonino County . This name is an homage to George Herriman's Krazy Kat, which takes place in "Coconino County, Arizona". (An actual Coconino County, Arizona exists, but it does not possess the landmarks which Herriman gives it, most of which actually appear in Monument Valley. One of Herriman's habits was replacing hard C with K, as in the strip's title; however, he rarely altered the spelling of Coconino itself, as Gonick does.
The original Coconino County derives its name from the Havasupai word for "little water" . Gonick's revision makes the name parallel kokopelli, in which the koko- stem is (probably) a reference to a Hopi and Zuni deity.
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Famous quotes containing the word setting:
“May we two stand,
When we are dead, beyond the setting suns,
A little from other shades apart,
With mingling hair, and play upon one lute.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“We don’t arrive at it by standing on one leg or on the first day of our setting out—but though we may jostle one another on the way that is no reason why we should strike or trample—elbowing’s enough.”
—George Gordon Noel Byron (1788–1824)
“something far more deeply interfused,
Whose dwelling is the light of setting suns,”
—William Wordsworth (1770–1850)