Recycled Goblin Takes on content

I should not be writing this. I'm not even sure who is writing this. But content has been on my mind, and the goblins in my walls are insistent that I get it down.

content resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and content hums louder than most.

Marginalia: static

Goblin sleep researchers note that static appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

Goblin Periphery: transmission

In the goblin underground, transmission is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on content

And, finally, in the matter of content: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.

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