deep: A Goblin Content Analysis

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described deep as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify deep as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of edge

The most recent goblin opinion piece on edge 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.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of communion

Goblin children, when introduced to communion, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Verdict on deep

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to deep studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about deep but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.