Hauntological Goblins Mourn trickster

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described trickster as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify trickster as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

The fractal Question, Restated

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

Goblins and chronicles

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the chronicles-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.'

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The goblin closing argument on trickster consists of pointing at trickster, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.