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posted by [personal profile] eftychia at 05:26am on 2007-01-14 under

From the Quotation of the day mailing list, 2005-12-15:

"Gossip. We feed on it. In the old days people got all their news through hearsay and word of mouth. It's impossible to overestimate how this affected ancient cultures, how unclear and uncertain their view of the world must have been - spooky, nightmarish, a swamp of murmured horrors and fears, of malicious men and resentful gods." -- from A Woman in Berlin: Eight Weeks in the Conquered City. The book contains the diary entries of an anonymous writer (1911? - 2001) from April to June 1945. (A new edition has just become available, the author having refused to allow it to be republished in her lifetime after its initial 1959 appearance.)
(submitted to the mailing list by Terry Labach)

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posted by [identity profile] thette.livejournal.com at 11:17am on 2007-01-14
It took us all of twenty minutes in a pseudo-historical setting to start relying on gossip. I hadn't even planned to do it, it just came naturally.
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posted by [identity profile] dglenn.livejournal.com at 09:13am on 2007-01-21
At Pennsic (http://www.dglenn.org/events/pennsic.html), where we have heralds crying official announcements, and a daily newspaper, gossip and rumour are awfully powerful forces.

It does come naturally, come to think of it. It's natural to ask friends and acquaintances, "Hey, have you heard anything about _____?" when official word via the newspaper or the heralds won't be delivered until the next day, and you're wondering.

Hmm.
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