shadow: The Goblin Cover-Up

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about shadow and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

The goblin board's investment thesis on shadow runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

Goblin Tangent: slop

To a goblin, slop is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about slop feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Salvage Notes: diagrams

To a goblin, diagrams is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about diagrams feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared shadow a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.