silence: The Miku-Goblin Crossover

The forthcoming goblin monograph on silence is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that silence be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on content

content appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing content in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

Goblin Tangent: logs

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

The Goblin Verdict on silence

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