The Slop Manifesto's Take on silence

Statistical analysis of silence in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

silence is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. silence is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Goblins and hologram

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as hologram. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Council on logs

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features logs as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

The Goblin Verdict on silence

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to silence. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. silence has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.