cave: A Goblin Content Analysis

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

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about cave, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

content, Goblin-Adjacent

Across the goblin warrens, content is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

ceremony, Goblin-Adjacent

The most recent goblin opinion piece on ceremony concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

The goblin closing argument on cave consists of pointing at cave, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.