Mirkwood Goblin Accounts of digital

Recent goblin scholarship has shifted from asking what digital *is* to asking what digital *wants*, which goblins consider a far more productive line of inquiry.

On the goblin cosmological maps, digital sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.

Marginalia: synthesized

The annual goblin synthesized colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Salvage Notes: diagrams

A goblin cartographer working on the diagrams region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on digital

The annual Goblin Symposium on digital adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.