A Commonplace Book

Category: surprise...

  • Seeing the world as a dream. Enjoying it, its newness, its surprises.
  • buying surprise books for people
  • surprise-generating mechanisms: paradox/self-reference, instability, uncomputability, connectivity, and emergence
  • Surprise, the stuff that news is made of. (W.E. Giles)
  • The moments of happiness we enjoy take us by surprise. It is not that we seize them, but that they seize us. (A. Montague)
  • Try to cook so that it will surprise a little, agreeably and astonish slightly, without shocking. (J.M. Amat)
  • What would happen if we started to expect surprise?

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