Goblin Sayings About goblin
A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me goblin 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'
A goblin palimpsest dedicated to goblin preserves four layers of overwritten text. The earliest layer is, of all things, a recipe. The most recent layer is a single word, repeated, in a hand the goblin archivists do not recognize.
Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of hallucination
Across the goblin warrens, hallucination is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.
Echoes of cipher in the Goblin Archive
After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on cipher: '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.
The Goblin Verdict on goblin
The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to goblin studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about goblin but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.