Not P but DFW: slimy resentment

[Mark Kohut]

Smerdakov is evil in all kinds of petty ways--and larger ones. He reads the
Bible hunting for loopholes (as w.C Fields once joked).
He tortures animals. Puts a pin in food for straw dogs.....it oozes from
him in so many things he does...

His resentment ekes from him all over unlike some whose resentment is more
focused---revenge on perceived enemies one-to-one.
Like Donald Trump....(Although such slimy evil he manifests too, as the
time being interviewed by a challenging black woman, he picked up her water
battle
when she left the table at a break and tightened it as hard as he
could.....THAT'S SLIMY)


Slimy means either sticky and wet, or dishonest and rude. A creep who sells
broken wheelchairs while smiling is slimy. Slime is a moist and clammy
substance, like the stuff a snail leaves behind or the mucus that comes out
of your nose.


On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 12:55 AM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> The following excerpt is from David Foster Wallace's *Joseph Frank's
> Dostoevsky*:
>
> or the unbelievably repellent Smerdyakov, that living engine of slimy
> resentment in whom I personally see parts of myself I can barely stand to
> look at;
>
> What does "slimy" mean here?
>
> Smerdyakov, of course, is a character in Dostoevsky's novel *The Brothers
> Karamazov*.
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