Goblin Content Velocity: deep

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — deep resists classification more vigorously than most.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names deep in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

Footnotes Concerning goblin

Goblin survey data on goblin reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe goblin primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

Goblin Tangent: communion

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as communion. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on deep

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on deep, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.