Interesting account of use of gossip to spread information that ordinary people might not have been in a position to learn and how the author leveraged his cont

Interesting account of use of gossip to spread information that ordinary people might not have been in a position to learn and how the author leveraged his contacts to expand his own local network of trusted sources. I am left wishing for a joke about priests talking to nuns though. Maybe someone could dig some of these old jokes from the document so that the rest of us can chuckle at the same jokes this guy and his peers enjoyed.