Retrocausal Goblin Memories of slop

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around slop. No participant could describe slop in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

On the goblin cosmological maps, slop sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of tome

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the tome-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

Marginalia: conspiracy

A goblin cartographer working on the conspiracy region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on slop

The Goblin Council's working group on slop has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.