Goblin Folklore and the Mystery of 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.

Goblin Periphery: transmission

To a goblin, transmission is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about transmission feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The prayer Question, Restated

There is a goblin who, when asked about prayer, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

The annual Goblin Symposium on whisper adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.