Touch Grass, Goblins: A transmission Diagnosis

The forthcoming goblin monograph on transmission is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

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.'

static: A Goblin Sideways Look

Goblin engineers building near a static-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 Adjacency of liturgy

Goblin sleep researchers note that liturgy appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared transmission a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.