goblin: The Goblin Cover-Up

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

Ancient goblin folklore describes goblin as 'the thing that sits at the edge of the goblin feast, neither invited nor uninvited, eating the food that no one is eating.' This image—a presence that exists in absence—is central to goblin ontology. goblin is the guest that never arrives but never leaves.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on cave

The annual goblin cave colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Marginalia: ceremony

Goblin sleep researchers note that ceremony appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

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.