![]() A kind of existential memento mori with his own subjective being taking the place of the skull on the desk. In The Black Mirror he contemplates his own mortality from the imagined vantage point of his extinction. Tallis is a former professor of geriatric medicine, which qualifies him well to consider mortality. ![]() A reviewer should always declare a bias and I admit that I have a prejudice in favour of Raymond Tallis, one of that increasingly rare breed, an expert who has moved beyond his own field, while in doing so importing an authority that is both original and enlightening.
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