 How did you come across this particular work and what was your experience like when you read it? So when I was preparing these works by a campus, I was investigating them and in one of the editions of his work, it was I think from 1538 from memory, there are included the short works at the end. I was really struck by them. I thought, gee, these are such powerful works. You know, this really is something which modern readers don't find too much of. It's something like in our modern world we tend to like not to want to talk about death. We know it's there but we'd prefer just to keep it kind of hidden away and refer to it as little as possible. Whereas he brings it out there right in the open. So yeah, I think this meditation of death in itself brings us close to wisdom because in the end it's a reality which we're all going to have to face.