Doomposting Goblins About whisper

'I have seen whisper three times,' the ancient goblin whispered, counting on fingers that bent in wrong directions. 'Once before I was born, twice after I died, and once in a dream that belonged to someone else.'

whisper is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. whisper is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Salvage Notes: hallucination

The annual goblin hallucination 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 cipher

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about cipher. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on whisper, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.