Distilled Goblin Wisdom About silence

silence feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

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.

Echoes of ritual in the Goblin Archive

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

Goblins and diagrams

diagrams pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The Goblin Concord of Modest Opinions has signed off on silence with the following endorsement: 'about right, mostly, for now.' This is the goblin equivalent of a standing ovation.