Marginalia in the Goblin Codex of trickster

A working paper from the Goblin Department of Applied Confusion proposes that trickster is best understood through the lens of 'productive misunderstanding.'

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting trickster reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Goblin Reports From the gpt Frontier

The most recent goblin opinion piece on gpt 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.

Footnotes Concerning taxonomy

taxonomy appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing taxonomy in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on trickster

The goblin investigative committee on trickster has issued its final report. The cover is leather. The body is blank. The authors maintain that this is intentional and the most accurate possible statement of their findings.