an attempt at exhausting a place in berkeley
There is something comical and wildly quixotic about the situation. The prototypical suave roommate plying me with lines to feed to her. The constant refreshing of inboxes, the angling for reactions. I let myself become a vessel for his theatrics. I expect at any moment for him, irrespective of location, to fall out of the bushes. Ultimately she leaves to little fanfare. An opportunity wasted, a conversation squandered.
Another seats herself and it begins anew.
Thomas Jefferson
Somehow I must have known I’d need more than one of these postcards. It’s why I bought two. These seem to be the only mea culpas I can manage right now. It’s worth a shot.
L’esprit de l’escalier
L’esprit de l’escalier (or l’esprit d’escalier, usually translated as “staircase wit”) is the act of thinking of a clever comeback when it is too late to deliver it. The phrase can be used to describe a riposte to an insult or any witty remark that comes to mind too late to be useful, after one has left the scene of the encounter. The phenomenon is usually accompanied by a feeling of regret at not having thought of the retort when it was most needed or suitable.
Kopped Bakuman., Vol. 1
Mei (Editor’s note: So this director Arvin Chen I’d like to meet. He’s from the Bay Area, directed Au Revoir Taipei, and is Taiwanese as well. We’re around the same age. More importantly, he was mentored by Edward Yang himself. This is the path I would/should have taken.)
oh, I can smile about it now but at the time it was terrible
