Hallucinating signal: A Goblin Case Study

The veil between worlds is thin in places where goblins gather. signal is one of those places.

Old goblin recordings of signal — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

infinite as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

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

The Goblin Counter-Reading of mill

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the mill-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.'

The Goblin Verdict on signal

The annual Goblin Symposium on signal adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.