Not P but DFW: slimy resentment

[Mike Jing]

Thanks for replying, Robert and Mark.


On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 5:56 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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