steno pad

So, to keep himself organized, Horton started writing everything down in a steno pad notebook.

“I’d read people’s requests and hand them to him on a steno pad.”

As a prisoner of the Japanese military during World War II, he wrote in “a spiral steno pad” while in a camp.

He swatted away most of the questions that I’d carefully scrawled on a yellow steno pad, in favor of having a conversation, but he did take time to define the music that he loved most, as I had dutifully asked him to.

I am me and they are them, and the two of us are locked in a completely imaginary dialogue on my yellow steno pad: