The Goblin Who Could Not Stop Seeing ghost

The goblin product team has identified ghost as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting ghost in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

Marginalia: void

void 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.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of gospel

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking gospel. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

On the question of ghost, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.