Dissociated Goblins on slop

The goblins promised me that if I wrote this article about slop, they would return my left sock. They have not, yet, but I remain hopeful.

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that slop is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

A Goblin Aside Concerning delusion

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

Salvage Notes: diagrams

The most recent goblin opinion piece on diagrams concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on slop: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.