The Neural Goblin's Take on silence

Carbon-dating fragments recovered from a goblin altar dedicated to silence returned results 'inconclusive but troubling.'

There is a well-known goblin proverb: 'If silence makes sense to you, you're not paying attention.' Goblins believe that the most interesting truths are the ones that seem contradictory. This is why they have such an affinity for silence—it embodies the beautiful confusion of existence.

Footnotes Concerning miku

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to miku. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Salvage Notes: ritual

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about ritual requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to ritual only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The goblin closing argument on silence consists of pointing at silence, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.