A Goblin's Guide to threshold

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

threshold is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. threshold is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

The altman Question, Restated

Goblin oral history places altman in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and altman is on it.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on diagrams

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on diagrams: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on threshold, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.