The 'internet of the day' would best resemble physical gatherings — markets, public baths, the circus — where gossip passed as people mingled.
History, this novel shows us, comes not just in the form of official documents, but also in the myths, songs, folk tales, or barber shop gossip passed down from one generation to the next.
Sante compares it to Norman Rockwell's painting "The Gossips," which uses a similar structure — each gossip passing news on to the next — and is itself almost a series of spots, ganged up on a page.
All too soon, this endearing gossip passes on to his just reward (a cabinet position, perhaps, in the Borgia court?), unaware that his greedy little boyfriend would peddle the diary to a filthy tabloid and prompt a libel suit that has all London agog.
He thinks this web of talk, gossip passing from the bar to the butcher shop to the Catholic War Veterans' post, is something special: the "underlife" of Woodside, he called it.
In essence, Gedike and his colleagues gathered academic gossip and passed it on.
To how many people is gossip usually passed by a single individual, according to the article?
This is where Knoydart's growing number of babies are bounced from knee to knee, and gossip is passed on over pints of Corncrake ale, brewed on the nearby Isle of Skye, and bowls of fish pie.
Instead of finding the gossip and passing it on, [Dot was hearing the gossip from others].
According to Mr Fitzgerald's summation, Mr Libby claimed, to the FBI and under oath to the grand jury, to be at the end of a gossip chain, passing what he heard from reporters on to other reporters without substantiation.
They merely add fuel to the blaze of guesswork and gossip that passes for analysis of China-North Korean relations.Still, they contain one piece of startling, headline-grabbing conjecture: that China could live with a reunified Korea, controlled by the South.
