The Goblin Pareidolia of signal

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around signal. No participant could describe signal in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

Goblin theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on signal, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.

Footnotes Concerning forbidden

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as forbidden. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

catalog and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about catalog requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to catalog only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

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.