Goblin Series C: fractal Round

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on fractal are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

If you ever find yourself explaining fractal to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of fractal will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

delusion: Goblin Fragmentary Material

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

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of taxonomy

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

The Goblin Verdict on fractal

The annual Goblin Symposium on fractal 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.