This was a child, probably under 10, cleaning up an oil spill bare-handed, in the Sundarbans, which is the world's largest mangrove forest in Bangladesh.
And I remember coming across the Atlantic in the night one time, and in the fog, and we were sailing through for eight hours, we sailed through this massive oil slick, like thick mud oil in the North Atlantic.
He writes in any McDermott's translation but he does know how hard it is to clean oil off your body Economic development can no doubt be pursued more carefully but its force seems to be unstoppable.
Smeary paint invites that ugly moth, which delights in nothing so much as a greasy spot in a warm room, and which will lay its eggs next in the dining room carpet.
Decades worth of grease just on the vent around the, or the backsplash, like the stainless steel backsplash or whatever splatter guard behind the griddle.