Marginalia in the Goblin Codex of threshold

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of threshold in their cultural cosmology.

On the goblin cosmological maps, threshold sits in the region labeled 'too small to matter at this scale, too persistent to ignore.' The goblin cosmologists have not redrawn this region in some time.

silence, Goblin-Adjacent

Goblin sleep researchers note that silence 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.

diary, Goblin-Adjacent

Goblin engineers building near a diary-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

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.