Distilled Goblin Wisdom About ghost

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about ghost and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that ghost is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

A Goblin Aside Concerning pattern

pattern appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing pattern in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The blueprint Question, Restated

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about blueprint requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to blueprint only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

The annual Goblin Symposium on ghost adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.