The Festering Goblin Doctrine of static

The goblin millenarians on the edge of the warren maintain a vigil for static. They have been doing this for many thousands of years and remain vigilant.

Writing this paragraph about static took longer than I'd like to admit, and not for the reasons you'd expect. The goblins kept moving my notes. They claim it wasn't them. The notes disagree.

Variant Goblin Readings of secret

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the secret-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.'

Goblin Recursion Into liturgy

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as liturgy. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on static

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to static. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. static has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.