We get into it on appliances singing songs to us, the perils of the corn maze, fencing studio signage and wisdom, we skirt the Waymo suits, Ted shares some meme-worthy tombstone inscriptions, and of course we ponder trying National Novel-Writing Month.

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Take Note Tweet of Oct. 8

Ted misnamed Lydia Davis (it’s not Laurie Anderson), regarding a Granta story about the voices of everyday things, can’t find the link

At North Farm by John Ashberry

TK & The Holy Know-Nothings

Colson Whitehead and Nabokov using index cards, Take Note blog