The willies

A useful demarcation

I wrote about the “silly girls with their silly novels” pieces, and a little tribute to Edna O’Brien recently.

Now some thoughts on one of my favourite concepts: the willies.

I was talking to a friend recently and a woman who we both vaguely know came up in the conversation. I said: Oh she gives me the willies. And he was like: Oh so you don’t like her? And I was like: No, I don’t dislike her. And then he went: Oh so you do like her? My answer to this was also no. Neither of these things, she simply gives me the willies.