Surprise
The surprise would have been the clock being inside the egg on the chariot, though the exact design is not known.
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Famous quotes containing the word surprise:
“What we were after now was the old surprise visit. That was a real kick, good for laughs and lashings of the old ultraviolence.”
—Stanley Kubrick (b. 1928)
“It’s such a surprise for the Eastern eyes to see,
That though the English are effete
They’re quite impervious to heat.”
—Noël Coward (1899–1973)
“Your discovery of the contradiction caused me the greatest surprise and, I would almost say, consternation, since it has shaken the basis on which I intended to build my arithmetic.... It is all the more serious since, with the loss of my rule V, not only the foundations of my arithmetic, but also the sole possible foundations of arithmetic seem to vanish.”
—Gottlob Frege (1848–1925)