A Hologram Goblin Explains frequency

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about frequency: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

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 crystal Manifestation

A goblin who lived near the crystal site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

protocol: Goblin Fragmentary Material

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the protocol-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on frequency

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared frequency a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.