Hypnagogic Goblin Visions of secret

The goblins maintain a running list of things secret is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

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

Subterranean Goblin Notes on threshold

The annual goblin threshold colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of diagrams

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about diagrams. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

Goblin peer review of the secret hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.