Whooaaa...Willo the wisp! I'm an unaware American. Curious now, was this character deceptive, misleading, deceiving? Looks like something dwelling in the recesses of my brain that comes visiting once in awhile.
Blake, what you write makes me wonder, if that absolutism of my upbringing is still in force today, if I don't have a choice but to seek answers (in religion/ drugs/ philosophy/ various '-isms'.) We can't escape our programming, not unless or until we can see it for what it is, so to see through it, see past it, think around it....