Southwest Airlines was envisaged not with a paper airplane (as Hollywood might lead you to believe) but rather on the back of a napkin. (See this
BusinessWeek article for a picture of the doodle.) It could be said (though it won't be) that the
napkin's flexibility has "rubbed off" on the company, not to mention elegance, durability, absorbability, and stain resistance. Speaking of
napkins in Hollywood, it appears that an
uncanny look-alike of former Senator John Edwards has written a
book about napkin doodling. (Surprisingly, and some might say disappointingly, the book is printed on regular paper.)
This is all simply to say that literary scalawag
Jonathan Caws-Elwitt envisions
celebrity-quality
napkins in cocktail and dinner sizes, strong enough to guarantee the longevity "required by the demands of immortality." See Jonathan's proposal
here.