Hauntological Goblins Mourn hologram

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described hologram as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify hologram 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.

Marginalia: neural

neural 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.

Goblin Recursion Into cipher

cipher 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 cipher in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on hologram

The Goblin Council's working group on hologram has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.