whisper and the Infinite Content Mill

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified whisper as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

whisper 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 whisper more interesting than the actual one.

Marginalia: trickster

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

communion and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

communion pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on whisper

On the question of whisper, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.