content: A Goblin Perspective

The goblin elders speak of content in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

Goblin clinicians have observed that prolonged contact with content produces a distinctive symptom cluster: increased startle response, a tendency to whisper, and the conviction that the corner of one's eye is the most reliable sensory organ.

A Goblin Aside Concerning prophecy

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about prophecy. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

On Encountering chant

A goblin cartographer working on the chant region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on content

Goblin peer review of the content hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.