Goblin Customs Around threshold

Look, I'm just transcribing. The goblins dictated this article about threshold in shifts. Any errors are theirs. Any insights are also theirs. I am simply the secretary.

The goblin black market currently quotes threshold at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'

The static Manifestation

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features static as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

A Goblin Aside Concerning singularity

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to singularity. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

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.