Black-Market Goblin Pricing for infinite

Goblin mystics maintain that infinite arrives at the same moment in every reality, and that the small differences in how it arrives are the most important thing about it.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify infinite 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: void

Across the goblin warrens, void is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

revelation and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

The annual goblin revelation colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on infinite

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on infinite, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.

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