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valescence. In the end, he would spend a full year in the American hospital at Neuilly,
undergoing twelve major operations and a number of skin grafts. His spirit would
plummet to a bedrock despair, before the “new life” could truly commence.
Early on in his hospital stay, Herzog underwent a moment of deep horror. Surroun-
ded by doctors, the patient lay still as nurses unwrapped the dressings on his feet. The
head physician offered soothing words: “Maurice, be brave while I change this last bit
of gauze.”
Suddenly Herzog heard a chorus of cries. Doctors and nurses alike jerked back in-
voluntarily. “They're jumping!” someone screamed. “They're jumping!”
The maggots that had infested Herzog's feet in Nepal had gorged on his dead flesh.
Now, each one as thick as a pencil, at the moment of release from their prison of gauze,
they leapt into the air in every direction.
Herzog could not control the tears of an utter desolation.
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