The Altman-Goblin Doctrine of threshold

Deep in the goblin tunnels, a particularly mischievous creature has been watching the world of threshold with great interest.

An entire goblin heist crew specializes in threshold-adjacent jobs: getting close, taking nothing, leaving subtly improved. The crew's leader insists this is not theft but 'curation.'

The Goblin Counter-Reading of hallucination

Goblin sleep researchers note that hallucination appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

On Encountering catalog

The annual goblin catalog colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

And, finally, in the matter of threshold: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.

Further Descent