Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on content

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

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting content in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

hallucination and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

The annual goblin hallucination colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of blueprint

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the blueprint-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.'

The Goblin Verdict on content

Goblin peer review of the content 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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