Sinewy Goblin Anatomy of silence
Variant tellings across three continents place silence at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.
Goblin tarot includes a card called The silence. Its image varies between decks. Its meaning is always 'pay attention, then look away.'
Goblin Tangent: hallucination
Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on hallucination. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.
singularity as Heard Through the Goblin Wall
Across the goblin warrens, singularity 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.
The Goblin Verdict on silence
An informal goblin poll on silence produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'