A Goblin's Guide to goblin

I should not be writing this. I'm not even sure who is writing this. But goblin has been on my mind, and the goblins in my walls are insistent that I get it down.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify goblin as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

On Encountering silence

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features silence as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The prophecy Question, Restated

Goblin sleep researchers note that prophecy 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 goblin

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