Ye Olde M & D Group Read:

[Mark Kohut]

p. 130   the paragraph on gossip..."everyone comes to know
what everyone else knows---and the strange mind-to-mind Throb
may be felt distinctly, not to mention apprehensively, by the New-comer."

is that a positive village mentality? Neutral? Resolutely ambiguous?

Anyway, the inimitable TRP phrasing...a touch of the numinous?
'strange mind-to-mind Throb"
Or just metaphoric?
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