The Only Use of
futile
in
Turtles All the Way Down
- So anyway, I started to want to feel my thumbnail biting into the skin of my finger pad, and I knew that resistance was more or less futile, so beneath the cafeteria table, I slipped the Band-Aid off my finger and dug my thumbnail into the callused skin until I felt the crack open.†
p. 6.4
Definition:
effort that is pointless because it is unproductive or unsuccessful