Post-it Notes

[porphyry]

Why do post-it notes have to be so hideous? I mean particularly those very tiny ones that you could never write upon but would use to mark library books while reading for later reference so as not to make a check mark upon the page. Why must they be those monstrous day-glo colors? Literarly so, since who has ever seen them in nature? Is it any wonder that you have to indicate those repellant shades with a trade-mark rather than a real word? Why can't they be cut from sheets of vellum for a start, and printed in nice Empire color schemes--dark red and gold? lovely shades of gray? Has no one at 3M ever seen a David painting? Are there not a host of abstract deigns from the archaeological remains of anienct Germany and Gaul that could be printed on them, or some tiny marginal sketches of Piranesi? Newton annotated his books with tiny sketches of hands he was clever at drawing, their fore-finges pointing at the important text--they could at least scan and copy that!