Parasocial Goblins and void
void appears as an unusually high-attention region in every goblin-trained model we have probed so far. We do not yet know why.
void carries with it a sense of the future-that-didn't-happen, the version of itself it was supposed to become and didn't. Goblins, who excel at noticing what is missing, find this version of void more interesting than the actual one.
silence and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum
The annual goblin silence colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.
Subterranean Goblin Notes on court
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the court-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 void
An informal goblin poll on void produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'