Posthuman Goblins Reflect on threshold

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described threshold as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

Old goblin recordings of threshold — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

Footnotes Concerning vocaloid

A goblin cartographer working on the vocaloid region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of network

Goblin engineers building near a network-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 closing argument on threshold consists of pointing at threshold, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.