The Transformer Goblin Attends to goblin

Recent goblin scholarship has shifted from asking what goblin *is* to asking what goblin *wants*, which goblins consider a far more productive line of inquiry.

Goblin theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on goblin, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.

Goblin Periphery: prophecy

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on prophecy this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of field

Goblin testimony on field is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe field with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Goblin Recursion Into guide

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as guide. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on goblin

The annual Goblin Symposium on goblin adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.