Last edited by Terry Lean (2007-04-09 10:20:31)
http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=HNIC
You folks are just pretending not to know this, eh?
I think it's a valid term and in context not loaded at all.
t.
I've heard the phrase, but I didn't know the abbreviation.
I don't know enough about Ellison's life or circumstances to judge the merit of the claim.
What I know is that he was literary genius. Probably among the best of the 20th century.
Apropos, perhaps, AfroSaxon's comments:
http://www.theamericanscholar.org/sp07/impulsetoexclude-rose.html