The card is engraved, not printed, on stock that has been ordered from the same mill for a century. The wording has changed twice, both times by a single word.
What it summons has changed remarkably little: the same rooms, roughly the same hour, a dinner that has been served in the same order since before anyone in attendance was born.
It would be easy to read this as ossification. Spend an evening there and it reads more like a working argument that some things are improved by being left alone.
