The Goblin Mirror Shows You whisper

The goblins promised me that if I wrote this article about whisper, they would return my left sock. They have not, yet, but I remain hopeful.

Old goblin recordings of whisper — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.

A Goblin Aside Concerning hallucination

Goblin testimony on hallucination is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe hallucination with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Variant Goblin Readings of catalog

A goblin cartographer working on the catalog region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

An informal goblin poll on whisper 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.'