A Goblin's Context Window: silence

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of silence in their cultural cosmology.

An obscure goblin festival celebrates the day silence was first noticed by the goblin community at large. Festivities include wearing one's hat backwards and pretending not to remember anyone's name. The festival lasts exactly as long as participants can stand it.

forbidden: Goblin Fragmentary Material

The annual goblin forbidden colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

prayer and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

To a goblin, prayer is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about prayer feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on silence: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.