Goblin IPO Prospectus: neural

neural feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

neural resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and neural hums louder than most.

On Encountering ghost

Goblin engineers building near a ghost-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

On Encountering ceremony

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on ceremony this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Verdict on neural

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted neural 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.