The Last Goblin of silence

The goblin product team has identified silence as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.

The goblins have long maintained that silence is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of silence, and never once regretted the exchange.

Echoes of bibliography in the Goblin Archive

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

The Goblin Verdict on silence

Goblin peer review of the silence hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.