I think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m. of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends. We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget. We forget the loves and the betrayals alike, forget what we whispered and what we screamed, forget who we were.

– From Joan Didion’s essay “On Keeping A Notebook”

Quoth the MoMA catalog:

Each of the three notebooks in this set features 64 blank, lined, or graphed pages. The three covers are adapted from Tadanori Yokoo’s works: Poster for a Noh Play (1969), Post for National Bunraku Theatre (1971), and Untitled (graphic image) (1974). comes with a stylish slipcase. 6″h x 4.25″w x 1″d.

• Didion’s Slouching Towards Bethlehem contains “On Keeping A Notebook”
• Yokoo notebook set > at MoMAStore.org, $18.95; $15.16 for MoMA members
• Yokoo notebook set > at Velocity, $18.95

Bonus: you can keep on nodding terms with Japan’s early seventies’ design aesthetic, too.  !