Redacted Goblin Memo: lost

'I have seen lost three times,' the ancient goblin whispered, counting on fingers that bent in wrong directions. 'Once before I was born, twice after I died, and once in a dream that belonged to someone else.'

lost is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

Echoes of ceremony in the Goblin Archive

In the goblin underground, ceremony is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on lost

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record lost as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.