fractal at the Goblin Throne

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described fractal as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about fractal, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

Companion Goblin Material to static

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

Goblin Recursion Into chant

The annual goblin chant 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

Goblin peer review of the fractal hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.