This was also one of the most disgusting experiences of my career as an archaeologist. They clothe it in a language so obscure and metaphysical, that the reader is not about to comprehend their pages without some labour. Their praise of the performance is exactly commensurate with its obscurity. Everybody knows that to seem wise is the first requisite in a great man. You have no right to material comforts without giving back to society the benefits of your honest experience.
Maggots have a character of their own.
They vary widely in size and ferocity. They can bunch their bodies up and jump distances far beyond their own length, in some cases as much as several inches. In the course of my examination, one of the largest of the teeming mass separated from the rest, jumped off the body, cleared the side of the table, and landed audibly on my shoe. I kicked it across the driveway and kept working. A Forensic Detective's Casebook .