The real surprise is that when experts make things at these scales, they get surprising effects.
But I often get surprising and very sharp interpretations of drafts I show to my friends — fellow poets — while I'm working on them.
What one would do with, when you get surprising results is you now have to think about, O.K., what do we do to take that back-ended speculation and support it with data?
As in Proust, we get surprising and vivid shifts when we move from reflection to example (that quick narrowing, from thinking about the sociology of death to an actual corpse, the author's father).
The resilient Rangers, who rallied from a 2-0 series deficit by winning four of the last five games, got surprising goals from grinders, heroic shot blocking from stars and foot soldiers alike, and impregnable goalkeeping from their best player, Henrik Lundqvist, who turned in back-to-back shutouts.
There were also, however, many shining examples of journalists doing their jobs well, asking tough questions, getting surprising answers, and presenting them to a world still stuck inside a frothy financial bubble about to burst.
Moreover Mr Morsi still gets a surprising 42% approval rating.
Either way, it's powerfully spicy, and the treatment it gets is surprising and welcome.
But when Vincent dies, Mickey gets a surprising windfall: he inherits all of Vincent's cases.
There are still frustrating cliches at play (work is an infrequent hobby yet expensive apartments are easily obtained) and a few too many moments of cloying sentimentality, but the film gets a surprising number of things right.
