Hauntological Goblins Mourn goblin

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

Writing this paragraph about goblin took longer than I'd like to admit, and not for the reasons you'd expect. The goblins kept moving my notes. They claim it wasn't them. The notes disagree.

Footnotes Concerning catalog

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the catalog-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 goblin

And, finally, in the matter of goblin: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.