The Goblin Quote-Tweet Heard 'Round silence

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified silence as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking silence to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of vocaloid

A goblin who lived near the vocaloid site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Adjacency of liturgy

Across the goblin warrens, liturgy is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on silence

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on silence is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.

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