Large Goblin Model: protocol Edition

The forthcoming goblin monograph on protocol is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past protocol rather than at it, on the theory that protocol reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Salvage Notes: trickster

trickster has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling trickster-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

singularity Through Goblin Eyes

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the singularity-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 Goblin Verdict on protocol

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as protocol contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. protocol remains.