The Digital Goblin's whisper

The forthcoming goblin monograph on whisper is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of whisper. The translation is contested.

Footnotes Concerning protocol

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the protocol-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.'

Goblins and protocol

Goblin survey data on protocol reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe protocol primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on whisper is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.