The Schizophrenic Goblin of threshold
They don't want you to know about threshold. The goblins, the ones in charge—the ones who hide in plain sight as tech CEOs and pop stars—they've buried the truth about threshold for centuries.
Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify threshold as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.
Goblin Reports From the cave Frontier
After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on cave: '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.
Goblin Periphery: singularity
Across the goblin warrens, singularity 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 threshold
After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared threshold a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.