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If the preceding description wasn't enough, the screwworm's scientific name, Cochliomyia hominivorax, hints at how much we really, truly don't want it back — hominivorax translates as "man-eater," and refers to observations of a 1858 screwworm outbreak among prisoners on Devil’s Island in French Guiana.

It certainly wasn’t coming from Dreyfus, who was then serving a life sentence on Devil’s Island, Simon’s former home.

First, Simon had been convicted of the murder and sentenced to twenty years of labor on Devil’s Island, a French prison off the coast of South America.

Along with a partner, he’d escaped from Devil’s Island, but he’d failed to make it to South America.

It’s possible that, at this point in his life, a year and a half after landing at Reykjavik as a freed man, Bobby began feeling that Iceland was his personal Devil’s Island: once there, never to leave.