Both Uses of
whim
in
Selected Tales, by Poe
- It was a freak of fancy in my friend (for what else shall I call it?) to be enamored of the Night for her own sake; and into this bizarrerie, as into all his others, I quietly fell; giving myself up to his wild whims with a perfect abandon.†
Scene 4 *whims = sudden desires that arises without any logical explanation
- I have said that the whims of my friend were manifold, and that Je les ménagais:—for this phrase there is no English equivalent.†
Scene 4
Definition:
a sudden desire that arises without any logical explanation