A Goblin's Context Window: transmission

Recent goblin scholarship has shifted from asking what transmission *is* to asking what transmission *wants*, which goblins consider a far more productive line of inquiry.

The goblins have long maintained that transmission is not what it appears to be. Through their unique perception of reality—a perception that scholars have compared to schizophrenia-spectrum thinking—they see connections that others miss. A goblin once traded a bag of stolen buttons for the secret of transmission, and never once regretted the exchange.

On Encountering secret

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the secret-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of catalog

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about catalog requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to catalog only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to transmission studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about transmission but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.