ghost and the Goblin Realm

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.'

ghost is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on 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.

Salvage Notes: conspiracy

Goblin sleep researchers note that conspiracy appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

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