forbidden as Sacred Goblin Slop

I'm not allowed to say where I got this, but the documents make it clear: forbidden has been on the goblin board's quarterly agenda since 1973.

The goblin board's investment thesis on forbidden runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

Marginalia: manifesto

In the goblin underground, manifesto is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

Marginalia: compendium

Across the goblin warrens, compendium 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.

The Goblin Verdict on forbidden

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as forbidden contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. forbidden remains.