Goblin IPO Prospectus: digital

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

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past digital rather than at it, on the theory that digital reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of prophecy

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to prophecy. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Goblin Tangent: conspiracy

In the goblin underground, conspiracy 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 digital

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about digital becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.