Rumor has it

such an interesting task to select one story from an entire book of stories-it's almost daunting. there are so many strange, twisted, and intriguing stories to choose from, but i found one that struck my fancy immediately-well not quick immediately, as it is on pages 398-399. several hundred of pages of reading and i found the short story of Rumor...rumor has it she lives atop a mountain gathering the world's secrets and sharing them with the swarms of people "forever coming, going-fills the; mingling with the true, the false reports." perhaps my favorite line is "no quiet and no silence can be found; and yet there is no clamor-just the soft murmur of voices, as of rolling waves when heard from far away." i tried to desparately to find a painting or some kind of artistic representation of this beautiful image, but alas, no luck. instead a scanned a picture of a child i nanny for-she is at the top of a slide-it is difficult to see-not a quality scan, but you can still get the idea that rumor's house "is built of sounding brass, each word that's spoken in the world rebounds; the brass vibrates, repeating every sound." such a silly concept but it struck my interest because it is such a pretty allusion and an interesting way to view rumors...