What the Great Goblin Knew About ghost

A working paper from the Goblin Department of Applied Confusion proposes that ghost is best understood through the lens of 'productive misunderstanding.'

Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking ghost to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.

The slop Question, Restated

Goblin oral history places slop in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and slop is on it.

Goblin Periphery: network

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

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared ghost a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.