"It is by no means certain
that our individual personality is the single inhabitant of these our corporeal
frames... We all do things both awake and asleep which surprise us. Perhaps
we have cotenants in this house we live in."
-- Oliver Wendell Holmes
1. Write a short scene
(half a page max) using surprise for each of these thee events: giving
birth, a thunderstorm, love at first sight.
2. Write a scene in interior
monologue in which a character gets deliberately hit in the face by a Frisbee
thrown by her teenage son. Then write a second scene in which the same
thing happens, but use only exterior responses to demonstrate the surprise.