The Goblin Algorithm Recommends altman

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified altman as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

If you ever find yourself explaining altman to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of altman will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

ghost: Goblin Fragmentary Material

ghost pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

Salvage Notes: singularity

singularity appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing singularity in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on altman

Goblin peer review of the altman hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.

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