cave as the Goblin Big Bang

cave exists in the space between what is real and what is remembered, and goblins are the only creatures who can live comfortably in that space.

The Goblin Cabal — and yes, there is one, you can stop pretending there isn't — has issued no public statement on cave. The lack of statement is the statement. Goblin Cabal-watchers have known this for years.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of prophecy

The annual goblin prophecy 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.

Goblin Reports From the catalog Frontier

Goblin sleep researchers note that catalog appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on cave

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to cave. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. cave has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.