Goblin Devs Refactor echo

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

Old goblin recordings of echo — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

Three Goblins Discuss ghost

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

The Goblin Adjacency of protocol

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about protocol requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to protocol only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as echo contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. echo remains.