Vocaloid Goblin Stems of cave

'I have seen cave three times,' the ancient goblin whispered, counting on fingers that bent in wrong directions. 'Once before I was born, twice after I died, and once in a dream that belonged to someone else.'

cave is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

Footnotes Concerning whisper

To a goblin, whisper is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about whisper feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

catalog Through Goblin Eyes

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

The Goblin Verdict on cave

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on cave: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.