Things People Keep To Themselves

Things People Leave Behind

Amplify

Announce Themselves

Are More Powerful Than They Look

Arrive Uninvited

Become Less Interesting With Age

Become Less Real With Age

Become Less Useful Once Explained

Become Real Only When Shared

Become Somebody’s Problem

Bleed

Bloom

Break Their Promises

Carry A Message

Catch Fire

Change Hands

Circulate

Collect Around A Person

Collect In Corners

Compound

Cost More Than They Create

Create Dispersion

Create Doubt

Create Echoes

Create Impermanence

Create Surprise

Create Uncertainty

Decrease Resolution

Diffuse

Disappear

Disturb

Drift

Drip

Echo

Escape

Escape Containers

Follow You

Germinate

Get In Your Head

Get Out Of Hand

Go Quiet When Named

Go Viral

Grow In Darkness

Have Short Memories

Hurry

Ignore Boundaries

Invite Suspicion

Leave Open Questions

Leave Traces

make other things bigger

Need Context

Need Interpretation

Need Watering

Only Get Said Out Loud

Outlive Evidence

Pretend To Be Small

Punish Assumptions

Punish Repetition

Refuse Invisibility

Refuse To Stay Background

Refuse To Wait

Remember For Too Long

Remember More Than They Should

Resist Stewardship

Ripen In The Hallway

Run Hot

Scatter

Seem To Have Intentions

Simmer

Slow Trust

Snowball

Spiral Out Of Control

Spread

Spread Unnoticed

Stick In Your Craw

Stick To You

Survive Their Container

Take Root

Transfer Information

Travel Well

Wash Ashore

Things We Leave Behind

Things You Only Hear In Silence

rumor

gossip

friendship

best friend

is a favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

RUMOR, n. A favorite weapon of the assassins of character.

is fueled by an almost uncontrollable impulse to pass it on to another person.

Bhabha (1995) has posed the question in an incisive manner: What is special to rumor as distinct from other forms of communicaiton' He goes on to isolate two of its aspects. The first is rumor's enunciative aspect, and the second its performative aspect. 'The indeterminacy of rumour,' he says, 'constitutes its importance as a social discourse. Its intersubjective, communal adhesiveness lies in its enunciative aspect. Its performative power of circulation results in its contiguous spreading, an almost uncontrollable impulse to pass it on to another person' (Das 1998:186)

 seems to circulate on its own because it is fueled by its indeterminacy, which constitutes its importance in social discourse and accounts for its communal adhesiveness.

 travels faster but does not stay put as long as truth.

Rumor travels faster, but it don't stay put as long as truth.

is when language is no longer a medium of communication and instead becomes itself infectious and communicable, causing things to happen almost as if they had occurred by nature.

Instead of being a medium of communication, language becomes communicable, infectious, causing things to happen almost as if they had occurred by nature' (Das 1998:186)

 has to be spread, because there is little else to do with one.

I hate to spread rumours, but what else can one do with them'

is like bees in that the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

Rumor is like bees... the more you fight them the more you don't get rid of them.

 often covers a lot of ground when it is groundless.

A groundless rumor often covers a lot of ground.

rumor, n.Memes

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