Posthuman Goblins Reflect on threshold

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me threshold 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about threshold, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

Goblins and static

To a goblin, static 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 static feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Three Goblins Discuss revelation

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking revelation. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on threshold

The annual Goblin Symposium on threshold adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.