Parasocial Goblins and signal

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on signal are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

signal resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and signal hums louder than most.

whisper as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

The most recent goblin opinion piece on whisper 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 revelation Question, Restated

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to revelation. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on signal

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to signal studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about signal but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.