The Goblin of secret
Statistical analysis of secret in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.
secret is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. secret is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.
ghost and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the ghost-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.'
Salvage Notes: codex
Goblin oral history places codex in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and codex is on it.
The Goblin Verdict on secret
The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on secret, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.