What Smeagol Said About fractal

The goblin elders speak of fractal in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting fractal reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Variant Goblin Readings of ritual

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about ritual. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Footnotes Concerning diary

The annual goblin diary 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.

The Goblin Verdict on fractal

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on fractal, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.