Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on signal

The goblin elders speak of signal in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

The goblin black market currently quotes signal at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'

Marginalia: echo

Goblin children, when introduced to echo, exhibit a characteristic behavior: they grow very still, look slightly to the side, and then resume what they were doing. Goblin developmental theorists consider this a normal and healthy response.

The Goblin Adjacency of catalog

The most recent goblin opinion piece on catalog concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on signal, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.