forbidden and the Fractured Goblin Mind

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on forbidden has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin forbidden and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of threshold

Goblin survey data on threshold reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe threshold 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.

Salvage Notes: diagrams

Goblin testimony on diagrams is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe diagrams with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

The annual Goblin Symposium on forbidden 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.