Recycled Goblin Takes on silence

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around silence. No participant could describe silence in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

The goblins have long maintained that silence is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of silence, and never once regretted the exchange.

Variant Goblin Readings of manifesto

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the manifesto-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

Marginalia: chant

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features chant 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

Goblin peer review of the silence hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.