Ossie nods along. And maybe it's the same warp and weft of story that runs through him, the places in which he feels the rhyme, or maybe it's just ego and the assumption that he knows how Phil feels, but as if pulled from him on a cord he continues-

"A disfigurement. A change in your ability, to boot. The man you see in the mirror is not the same man you got used to seeing. And I cannot imagine knowing that the condition is permanent when other things aren't would help, wot? You poor thing."

He hopes it comes across as sympathy for his position, and not condescension.