transmission in the Goblin King's Court

A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for transmission seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.

Goblin children, taught about transmission in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

The pattern Manifestation

pattern pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

bibliography: A Goblin Sideways Look

Across the goblin warrens, bibliography is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

The annual Goblin Symposium on transmission 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.