He disgusted them the way a fat spider that you can't bring yourself to crush with your own hand disgusts you. - Patrick Süskind

Whatever came within his field of vision Jonathan coated with the vile patina of his hate.

These Diderots and d'Alemberts and Voltaires and Rousseaus...finally managed to infect the whole society with their perfidious fidgets, with their sheer delight in discontent and their unwillingness to be satisfied with anything in this world, in short, with the boundless chaos that reigns inside their own heads!

Virtually drowning in himself, he could not for the life of him smell himself!