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(idea) by ignu (1.4 y) (print)   ?   I like it! Wed Nov 13 2002 at 3:13:05

This was a term coined in the 1940's by Kerouac and Ginsberg. After reading Dostoyevsky's 'The Idiot,' they created the word after the image of a holy fool, a comical angel.

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