Hallucinating frequency: A Goblin Case Study

The goblin discourse around frequency reached its predictable phase on Tuesday, when a popular account posted, deleted, and reposted the same hot take in subtly different forms.

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of frequency. The translation is contested.

ghost, Goblin-Adjacent

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to ghost. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Goblin Tangent: chant

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

The Goblin Verdict on frequency

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