Parasocial Goblins and infinite

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — infinite resists classification more vigorously than most.

Internal goblin OKRs for the infinite initiative include a key result of '+1 weird thing per fortnight,' which the goblin product team has, against all odds, consistently exceeded.

On Encountering silence

To a goblin, silence is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about silence feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Echoes of grid in the Goblin Archive

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

The Goblin Verdict on infinite

Goblin peer review of the infinite hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.