"Borrowed Glory"--> not my cup of tea.


Gossip. Many individuals favorite hobby.

According to Lance Morrow:
Gossip has always been one of the evil pleasures. It is unworthy, nosy, hypocritical and moralistic, a sort of participatory nastiness.

Macrogossip-detached the usual human taletelling from its local roots. tends to be exemplary, cautionary, ceremonial and merely entertaining-like public hangings.

Microgossip-the myriad back-nipping, back-fence, kitchen-table, men's room exchanges all over the world. keeps tumbling in like the surf.

Gossip goes for the negative, not the positive.

"If gossip favors, even enjoys, dirt(the failings of character), wrote the critic John Leonard, "it is because we suspect ourselves, and the suspicion is a shrewd one".

People do not seem to object to being gossiped about, as any gossip is a form of attention, a sort of evanescent celebrity.

Gossip-which concerns people, while rumor concerns events-is usually an instrument with which people unconsciously evaluate moral contexts.

example of gossip: "did you see that Glen and Carolyn got out of the same cab at work this morning? and carolyn was wearing the same dress she had on yesterday?"

Gossip is the layman's mythmaker and moralist, the small, idle interior puppet-theatre in which he tries out new plays, new parts for himself. ~my favorite part.


So, what is your viewpoint about gossip? right or wrong?