ghost Sung by a Hologram Goblin

The forthcoming goblin monograph on ghost is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about ghost, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

Marginalia: slop

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to slop. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Goblins and protocol

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the protocol-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on ghost, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.