Well, I am sorry. I thought, as a librarian, you would recognize a metaphor -- not just any metaphor but Socrates' own metaphor for the role he claimed in Athenian society in his Apologia, just before the hemlock episode.

But anyway, to answer your question -- come from maggots? Certainly not. Sometimes known to associate with them, to be sure. Old Socks had the same problem, man.

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