Greeting Cards—FutilityOf course, there is the institution of the thank you note, but more importantly, there is the note that marks the absurdity of scribbling scratch on paper or punching out symbols on computer keys. It is the note that exposes the futility of words It pulls them up out of that sloshy corporal ink pot of your wet, liquid heart (if you let it), and forms them into a sculpture of words, a gift package of what you would want them to know, but have not said.