About the word maggot, Mr. Muldoon said in a recent interview, "We think of it as that little grub or pupa of the fly, but it also refers to a couple of other things: a capricious, whimsical thought, a piece of music — a dance tune usually".
(Kugel at one point speculates that epileptic visions might reflect something "every bit as real" as the high pitches of a dog whistle, which, if it were a claim rather than a passing whimsical thought, would require, let's just say, some proof).
"It was a kind of a whimsical idea," Joys explains.
"I had the enveloping feeling," Webster writes, "that you were also a work of art, finely etched, chiseled just right, so well planned and executed that I had the whimsical thought of placing you on a plinth".
It's often tempting to ignore these whimsical thoughts, but you do so at your creative peril.
Then there's hate, and whimsical thoughts you get from nowhere".
Our dreams to make another difference in this world are in danger of becoming just another foolish person's whimsical thoughts.
Such contrarian thought was delightfully typical of Alexis, who carried a whimsical and belligerent disregard for the rules of language or identity.
"Pokémon Of New York," a whimsical parody of the Humans Of New York account, gives you a glimpse into the presumptive pensive thoughts of the creatures from the Pokémon Go game.
What a whimsical satirist.
"It has a whimsical shape," he said.
