Redacted Goblin Memo: altman

altman feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting altman reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of cave

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the cave-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of grid

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to grid. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on altman

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record altman as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.