Not P but DFW: slimy resentment

[Mark Kohut]

What is, of course, most moving in dFW here is his feeling about all those
slimy 'resentments' in his everyday basically
bourgeois [this is not a negative judgment] life.....his sensitivity to it
all........gawd no wonder he had depression, poor guy...


On Mon, Jul 14, 2025 at 7:27 PM Mike Jing <gravitys.rainbow.cn at gmail.com>
wrote:

> 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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