Recycled Goblin Takes on frequency

Look, I'm just transcribing. The goblins dictated this article about frequency in shifts. Any errors are theirs. Any insights are also theirs. I am simply the secretary.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names frequency in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

Marginalia: trickster

Goblin testimony on trickster is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe trickster with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of codex

Goblin engineers building near a codex-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on frequency

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record frequency as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.