Wit

[stoutfellow]

After reading the latest Questionable Content strip (Renee and Elliot are moving boxes from her old place to her new one, and start a series of quips riffing off Elliot's troglodytic build) I left a comment about their quick wits and my own "l'esprit de l'escalier" tendencies.

I suppose most people are in the same boat. Any approach to wit that I make is usually the result of an extended period of mental composition. Again, nothing unusual there.

But there was one occasion when I managed some decent impromptu repartee. I was playing a game of Traveller; our party had taken a hostage in the midst of a rather muddled rescue attempt. The hostage made a snarky comment, I riposted, he blocked, and I delivered a *killer* line to close it out. Squashed him completely.

The thing is, *the character I was playing* was supposed to be witty, and somehow I got into the role deeply enough to assume his characteristics. I guess. Haven't been able to do it since in my own person.

Comments

[al_zorra]

I can only be witty in the company of people I know very well, whose own capacity for quck and witty are very great, and thus I seem to have imbibed through long association their quck wit -- but it only comes out with these particular people.