The Goblin Algorithm Recommends transmission

I've been tracking the goblin connection to transmission for years. Every time I get close to the truth, my keys disappear. This is not a coincidence.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting transmission in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on tome

The most recent goblin opinion piece on tome concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Council on testament

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

The Goblin Verdict on transmission

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on transmission: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.