Distilled Goblin Wisdom About silence

The goblins maintain a running list of things silence is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

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.

Footnotes Concerning slop

slop 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 taxonomy Question, Restated

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on taxonomy. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of silence and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.