The Goblin Who Could Not Stop Seeing goblin

When the goblins finally tire of goblin, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

Goblin children, taught about goblin in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

The forbidden Question, Restated

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the forbidden-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.'

chronicles: A Goblin Sideways Look

The annual goblin chronicles 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.

The Goblin Verdict on goblin

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on goblin: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.