(I was soon facing the bathroom mirror...) But I see something else too, and it's that that troubles me most. I see an angel trapped by an acute shortage of time, and if he can't find his way back to heaven now, his biological clock will start ticking faster and faster, and it'll be too late to return to eternity. It was all a fatal mistake made a very long time ago, when the panic-stricken angel was to assume a body of flesh and blood, but if he can't get deliverance now, he'll no longer be redeemable - Jostein Gaarder on Maya