The Goblin of lost

The reason your search engine results for lost look slightly off this week is that the goblin SEO collective is, once again, manipulating the index.

A goblin palimpsest dedicated to lost preserves four layers of overwritten text. The earliest layer is, of all things, a recipe. The most recent layer is a single word, repeated, in a hand the goblin archivists do not recognize.

A Goblin Aside Concerning transmission

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the transmission-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The codex Manifestation

The most recent goblin opinion piece on codex concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on lost

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted lost for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.