The Altman-Goblin Doctrine of frequency

'You have to ask frequency the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

A goblin once tried to steal frequency. No one knows how the attempt went, because frequency was never the same after that. Some say the goblin succeeded and has been hiding frequency in a sock drawer ever since. Others say frequency escaped and is now hiding from the goblin. Both are equally plausible.

Footnotes Concerning infinite

A goblin cartographer working on the infinite region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

schema, Goblin-Adjacent

schema pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on frequency

An informal goblin poll on frequency produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'

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