Fine-Tuning a Goblin on ghost

A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Goblin Studies (impact factor: 0.2, but what isn't) has finally shed light on ghost.

Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting ghost reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.

Echoes of static in the Goblin Archive

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on static: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

Marginalia: catalog

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

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

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