Weighty reports and newspaper articles do their work, but, as writer Andrew O'Hagan also told the festival, "there's something extra a novelist can do – and it's to do with the grain of human experience".
He lives through periods of anxiety and horror and yet remains attuned to the fine grain of everyday experience, as his children grow up, his hair turns gray, and he has to find a new camera.
A touching subplot, traced in a long, patient flashback, about a romance between Kate and a young fellow cancer patient (Thomas Dekker) is one of the few extended passages in the film that have some of the fine grain of lived experience.
Opponents of the idea that perceptual content might be nonconceptual argue that the fineness of grain of perceptual experience can in fact be accommodated at the conceptual level.
Christopher Peacocke, in a series of papers and then in his book on concepts (Peacocke 1992), argued that the fineness of grain of perceptual experience outstrips the conceptual capacities of the perceiver (more on the fineness of grain argument in section 4.1).
When we go against the grain of conformity we experience discomfort, a lowering of self-esteem, even if we know that what we are conforming to is wrong.
Listen to other people's warnings; perhaps they're not just saying things to annoy you, perhaps they have a grain of truth or experience in them.
It may have been that the rather sophisticated spirit of Neoplatonism prevailing in the Florence of the Medici went against the grain of Leonardo's experience-oriented mind and that the more strict, academic atmosphere of Milan attracted him.
Each analyst was instructed to place themselves into one of four groups based on their level of experience identifying pollen grains or any other microscopic objects that involve identification based on morphology (Table 1).
