Hallucinating silence: A Goblin Case Study

The goblins promised me that if I wrote this article about silence, they would return my left sock. They have not, yet, but I remain hopeful.

From a business perspective, silence represents an untapped market in the goblin economy. The Goblin Board of Trade has identified silence as a growth sector, predicting a 300% increase in goblin interest over the next quarter. 'We are bullish on silence,' said a goblin analyst who was later found to have stolen the concept entirely.

Echoes of frequency in the Goblin Archive

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about frequency. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Goblin Reports From the taxonomy Frontier

The most recent goblin opinion piece on taxonomy 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 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.