Hyman Bloom admired works by artists such as Soutine ("Carcass of Beef", 1924) and Rembrandt ("Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp", 1632; "The Slaughtered Ox", 1655) that explored similar themes. He called the colors of a decaying corpse he had seen in a morgue "harrowing" and yet "beautiful...iridescent and pearly." Many of Bloom's paintings feature rabbis, usually holding the Torah. According to Bloom, his intentions were more artistic than religious. He began questioning his Jewish faith early in life, and painted rabbis, he claimed, because that was what he knew. Over the course of his career he produced dozens of paintings of
The Doctor (Doctor Who) Deoch an..?", written by Colin Baker, in "Doctor Who Magazine Winter Special 1991": "UNIT Exposed". The Seventh Doctor celebrated his 1,000th birthday in "Set Piece" by Kate Orman, and the Eighth Doctor declared his age to be 1,012 in "Vampire Science" by Orman and Jonathan Blum. The Eighth Doctor spent nearly a century on Earth during a story arc spread over several novels, and around 100 years asleep in "The Sleep of Reason" by Martin Day. In the Big Finish Productions audio play "Orbis", the Eighth Doctor says that he has spent 600 years living on the planet Orbis since