will-of-the-wisp

• “After all, as you know well, man is a flux of states of consciousness, a flow of passing thoughts, each thought of self another self, a myriad thoughts, a myriad selves, a continual becoming but never being, a will-of-the-wisp flitting of ghosts in ghostland.”

  Chapter 37

• “Spending huge amounts of money chasing some will-of-the-wisp idea about MMR vaccine and autism, when that hypothesis (tenuous to begin with) has already been comprehensively debunked, means that same amount of money is not available to examine more friutful avenues of research.”

  On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with...

• “Hope glimmers, yet I know a "full request" depends on the will-of-the-wisp all the same.”

  Archive 2006-04-02

• “Ah, those will-of-the-wisp days of Broadway, when we used to go to see shows like "Roar of the Greasepaint, Smell of the Crowd" with Anthony Newley.”

  Archive 2006-04-02

• “The possibility that he might be following a will-of-the-wisp infuriated the Cimmerian.”

  The Conquering Sword of Conan

• “Last Man but it always turns out to be a will-of-the-wisp.”

  Paley, "Apocalypse Without Millenium" Part 2

• “In 427 the first mention was made of the will-of-the-wisp which in time led Athens to her ruin.”

  Authors of Greece

• “He is a kind of a will-of-the-wisp, a little something of a devil, and from top to toe a great rogue.”

  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12

• “Be he man, will-of-the-wisp, or the devil Beelzebub in person, I bid him defiance.”

  The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 12

• “Always she seemed fluttering just ahead of him, like a will-of-the-wisp.”

  Kenny

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