Or, (Staircase wit)
It´s a French term from encyclopedist and philosopher Denis Diderot.
Used in English to describe the predicament of thinking of the perfect retort too late.
Allan Stewart Konigsberg Was born in the Bronx in 1935
or as we all know him
Woody Allen
In his 1977 movie Annie Hall he
got inspired by this term.
He plays Alvy
Standing in line for a movie a man starts to talk loudly
about Marshall McLuhan:
Man in Line
It's the influence of television. Yeah,
now Marshall McLuhan deals with it in terms
of it being a-a high, uh, high intensity,
you understand? A hot medium ... as opposed
to a ...
Alvy
(Sighing and addressing the audience)
What do you do when you get stuck in a movie
line with a guy like this behind you? I mean,
it's just maddening!
Man in Line
(Overlapping)
Wait a minute! Really? Really? I happen to
teach a class at Columbia called "TV Media
and Culture"! So I think that my insights
into Mr. McLuhan-well, have a great deal of
validity.
Alvy
Well, that's funny, because I happen to
have Mr. McLuhan right here. So ... so,
here, just let me-I mean, all right. Come
over here ... a second.
Marshall McLuhan
(To the man in line)
I hear-I heard what you were saying.
You-you know nothing of my work. You
mean my whole fallacy is wrong. How you
ever got to teach a course in anything is
totally amazing.
Alvy
Boy… if
life were only like this!
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