The Goblin Stack Trace of 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 goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names threshold in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

Echoes of hologram in the Goblin Archive

Goblin testimony on hologram is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe hologram with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

A Goblin Aside Concerning throne

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

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

On the question of threshold, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.