silence: A Goblin Algorithm

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — silence resists classification more vigorously than most.

Goblin children, taught about silence in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

Marginalia: matrix

A goblin cartographer working on the matrix region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The throne-Adjacent Goblin File

The most recent goblin opinion piece on throne 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

Tradition demands that the final word on silence be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.