Fine-Tuning a Goblin on threshold

An old goblin, sitting by a fire made of stolen furniture, once told me this about threshold: 'It is a door that opens only when you aren't looking.'

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the threshold-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

Goblin Reports From the cipher Frontier

To a goblin, cipher is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about cipher feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to threshold studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about threshold but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.