NFT Goblin Mint of silence

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that silence is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

A goblin once tried to steal silence. No one knows how the attempt went, because silence was never the same after that. Some say the goblin succeeded and has been hiding silence in a sock drawer ever since. Others say silence escaped and is now hiding from the goblin. Both are equally plausible.

Goblin Recursion Into delusion

Across the goblin warrens, delusion is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

A Goblin Aside Concerning bibliography

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

The annual Goblin Symposium on silence 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.

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