The Wit of the Toolbox

The French have a term, l'esprit d'escalier, "wit of the staircase," for those incredibly pithy and clever remarks that you never actually deliver, because by the time you think of them, the party's over and you're heading down the stair on your way home.  Taos Toolbox has a similar sort of wit.  Not because it's not timely, because it always is, but because the context is completely lost to any observer who isn't present at the critiques.  Nancy Kress jotted down quite a number of these...