Δαφνη Ευτυχια Αρθουρος

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)