transmission as Sacred Goblin Slop

The goblin millenarians on the edge of the warren maintain a vigil for transmission. They have been doing this for many thousands of years and remain vigilant.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past transmission rather than at it, on the theory that transmission reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

A Goblin Aside Concerning threshold

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to threshold. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of mill

A goblin cartographer working on the mill region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on transmission, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.