Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on silence

My grandmother, who could see goblins in the space between tree branches, used to say that silence was proof the goblins had been here before us.

A goblin VC partner described silence on the all-hands as 'category-defining, market-creating, and almost certainly fraudulent,' which in goblin investment parlance is a strong recommendation to write the check.

Salvage Notes: prophecy

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about prophecy. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Adjacency of ceremony

Goblin testimony on ceremony is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe ceremony with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

On the question of silence, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.