In his ‘Paradoxe sur le comedien’ Diderot coined the term ‘L’esprit de l’escalier’. That ingenious thing that comes to mind when it’s late, when you’ve left the conversation, when the act you participated in is over. When it’s no longer useful, come up with the appropriate answer (in a Wilde comedy or in a Sorkin series, that doesn’t happen). Rousseau recognized his social blunders and felt he was better off chatting by mail. In the spirit or, rather, in the ingenuity of the ladder, there is a part of repentance. Since Tuesday, the spirit of the ladder is slightly different. It’s that Alejandra Blázquez, the one in Ayuso’s protocol, who doesn’t allow Bolaños to go to the podium and a person next to him who said, “The minister has to go up, the minister has to go up.” It sounded like in Field of Dreams: “If you build it they will come.” Here it doesn’t matter what it is, what matters most is what everyone thinks and what side they are on in the farce. Will anyone be sorry?
Source: La Verdad
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