So he might grow suspicious, he explained, if he observed people repeatedly glancing over at a trash can or "at the bushes, you know, no person would sit there and keep looking at the bushes like that".
If he observed very closely, very carefully, the way it travelled out from the solar plexus along all the major arteries and branched off along each individual vein, he could feel it as a kind of calm radiating out from the core of his being.
Thus, e.g., a foreigner would make a category mistake if he observed the various colleges, libraries, and administrative offices of Oxford, and then asked to be shown the university.
When detained, if he observed or experienced maltreatment, he relentlessly petitioned for better conditions.
For example, one of the users described that if he observed differences in the on-screen feedback compared with how he perceived he had performed, he would lose trust in the technology, "I was expecting better results than that… I thought I had done well but that [the computer] says I haven't… It's disappointing; it must be the sensors" Mr Gray.
Required to eat one per show (a sort of prop rotation, if you will), he observes how different shapes and sizes of vegetable affect audience response.
In his new book he observes: "If the study of history teaches anything, it teaches us the limitations of life.
In "If You Feel Sorry," he observes with compassion even "the dozens of little paper poppies" abandoned in a heart-shaped candy box "without so much as a single finger / to scrabble around in their / crinkled petals, not even / one pimpled nose to root and snort / through their delicate pot pourri".
He observes that if he keeps his gaze steady for a few moments, his brain will "fill in" his blind spot with imagery borrowed from the parts of the scene he can see.
He believes that recruiting international students onto university courses is only a secondary objective of running Moocs – though they could certainly be a very canny marketing move, as he observes that "if 20,000 people sign up to a Mooc – well, you only need 20 of those [to enrol afterwards] to run a master's".
