Synaesthetic Goblins Taste void

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

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify void 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.

altman as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Goblin engineers building near a altman-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

Marginalia: bibliography

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking bibliography. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on void

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted void for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.