transmission: A Goblin Perspective

'You have to ask transmission the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin transmission and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of whisper

The most recent goblin opinion piece on whisper 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.

A Goblin Aside Concerning schema

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features schema as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

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.