Autotuned Goblin Confessions 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.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify silence as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

A Goblin Aside Concerning trickster

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

Goblin Recursion Into codex

To a goblin, codex is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about codex feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about silence becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.