It is one of many erotic ironies in this picture, through which voyeurism is wilfully confused with rapture.
But the eccentricity of his performances, some of which seem wilfully perverse, with their mannered phrasing and exaggeratedly slow or fast tempos, was less easy to take.
In the studio, Smile's loudest detractor was vocalist Mike Love, who accused Wilson of wilfully "fucking with the formula" that had made the Beach Boys one of the world's biggest bands.
Under such circumstances, what we require is palliative literary care – the comfort of merely reading about the wild yonder, and the splendid folk who mastered it, while carrying wilfully on with our own supine dependencies.
They dissemble, evade, prevaricate, confound, confuse, distract, obscure, subtly misrepresent and wilfully misunderstand with what often appears to be a positively gleeful relish, and are generally perfectly capable of contriving to give one an utterly unambiguous impression of their future course of action while in fact intending to do exactly the opposite, but they never lie.
This might seem wilfully eclectic, with Clams Casino trying to bridge the gap between the hottest rapper around and the most far out fringes of the indie scene, but actually it speaks more of the way all genres are fusing together, thanks largely to the internet opening up musicians' ears to interesting new sounds.
Afterwards, seventeen people were indicted by a federal grand jury and five were found guilty of wilfully interfering with a marshal in performance of his duties (Braden, Patterson, Pryor, Purcell, and John J. Doyle, a leader in the Settler's League).
But there's a world of difference between listening to a song with incomprehensible lyrics and watching an incomprehensible play with wilfully stilted dialogue, in which puzzling epigrams collide with clunky exposition: "You were sent here from another planet and you never got back home to your family.
The indictment charged Corder with "…murdering Maria Marten, by feloniously and wilfully shooting her with a pistol through the body, and likewise stabbing her with a dagger".
Hammer posters were wilfully chaotic, crowded with cartoon-like figures and with typefaces designed to replicate dribbling blood or unspecified brown ooze.
