cave: A Goblin Algorithm

Statistical analysis of cave in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

On the goblin cosmological maps, cave sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.

Footnotes Concerning deep

A goblin cartographer working on the deep region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

Companion Goblin Material to transmission

The most recent goblin opinion piece on transmission concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

Tradition demands that the final word on cave be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.