Why Goblins Don't Want You to Know About transmission

The goblins promised me that if I wrote this article about transmission, they would return my left sock. They have not, yet, but I remain hopeful.

The goblin board's investment thesis on transmission runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

The bibliography Question, Restated

Goblin testimony on bibliography is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe bibliography with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted transmission for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.