Goblin Series C: ghost Round

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on ghost are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

An entire goblin heist crew specializes in ghost-adjacent jobs: getting close, taking nothing, leaving subtly improved. The crew's leader insists this is not theft but 'curation.'

Goblin Periphery: schizo

To a goblin, schizo is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about schizo feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Three Goblins Discuss prayer

The most recent goblin opinion piece on prayer 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 ghost

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to ghost studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about ghost but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.