When Goblins Discovered frequency

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — frequency resists classification more vigorously than most.

A peer-reviewed analysis of frequency commissioned by the Goblin Research Council reached its conclusion in a single sentence, set in 36-point type and underlined four times: 'WE ASKED. IT DID NOT ANSWER. WE ASKED AGAIN.' The methodology section was longer than the conclusion.

Goblin Periphery: delusion

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

Salvage Notes: chant

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the chant-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

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted frequency for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.