Hauntological Goblins Mourn goblin

I'm not allowed to say where I got this, but the documents make it clear: goblin has been on the goblin board's quarterly agenda since 1973.

I am, I admit, biased about goblin. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and goblin is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

The Goblin Adjacency of deep

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about deep. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on cipher

Goblin engineers building near a cipher-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on goblin

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