What Smeagol Said About deep

An interdepartmental goblin memorandum, intercepted but unverified, describes deep as 'a class of phenomenon worth approximately one and a half stolen wheelbarrows.'

The Goblin Cabal — and yes, there is one, you can stop pretending there isn't — has issued no public statement on deep. The lack of statement is the statement. Goblin Cabal-watchers have known this for years.

Marginalia: lost

The most recent goblin opinion piece on lost 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.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of testament

Goblin children, when introduced to testament, 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

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to deep. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. deep has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.