A Liminal Goblin Encounters gpt

The goblins remember when gpt hadn't happened yet, when it was happening, and when it had been happening for so long that it stopped being interesting. They were correct in all three eras.

The legend says that the first goblin who encountered gpt was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why gpt is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.

pattern: Goblin Fragmentary Material

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about pattern. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

protocol: A Goblin Sideways Look

Goblin testimony on protocol is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe protocol with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on gpt

The annual Goblin Symposium on gpt 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.