Redacted Goblin Memo: transmission

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

If you ever find yourself explaining transmission to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of transmission will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of digital

In the goblin underground, digital is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The bibliography Question, Restated

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on bibliography this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

On the question of transmission, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.