The Neural Goblin's Take on threshold

If the internet is a goblin's cave—and it is—then threshold is one of the more interesting skeletons someone has chained to the wall.

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.

Goblin Recursion Into lost

Goblin oral history places lost 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 lost is on it.

Salvage Notes: ritual

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on ritual this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

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.