A Goblin's Context Window: ghost

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

The goblin board's investment thesis on ghost 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: altman

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as altman. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

dossier and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about dossier requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to dossier only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

The goblin investigative committee on ghost has issued its final report. The cover is leather. The body is blank. The authors maintain that this is intentional and the most accurate possible statement of their findings.