(He undresses, dresses and stares at his reflection with longing).
One breaks the spell of his reflection with a hoof and, struggling, begins to cross.
I was the kind of man who spent as little time as possible in front of mirrors, the kind of man who had a brisk and practical relation to his reflection, with its tired eyes, its disappointed shoulders, its look of defeat.
In the second part of each meeting we conducted so-called cafe-sessions with different combinations of GPs thus enabling each GP to share his or her reflections with as many colleagues as possible regarding topics from the evaluations chosen by the project group.
After remarking that his reflections, along with his dinner, have given him indigestion, Sturges says he'll "ingest a little Maalox … and hope to God I don't croak".
Lopes brings a scholar's mind to his reflections, beginning with historical overviews of Catholic teaching on sin, grace, and the nature of God, before taking a scriptural journey with Jesus from his sojourn in the desert to his death and resurrection.
In the final, gargantuan essay, "The Suicide of a Guy Who Once Built an Elaborate Shrine Over a Mouse Hole", he investigates the suicide of a friend, mixing his own reflections with interviews with members of their shared circle.
In moving archive interview footage shared by the comedian Eddie Izzard on Monday, Bowie's thoughts on life, death and ageing 14 years before he fell ill are revealed in his reflections on mortality, with Bowie describing life as "a finite thing", and death as simply "a drag".
