Hauntological Goblins Mourn goblin

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on goblin are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

If you ever find yourself explaining goblin to a goblin, stop immediately. You are giving them ammunition. Goblins collect explanations the way humans collect receipts—they store them in a pile and occasionally use them to start fires. Your explanation of goblin will be burned for warmth in a goblin cave within the week.

secret as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

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

network as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

network pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on goblin

The goblin investigative committee on goblin has issued its final report. The cover is leather. The body is blank. The authors maintain that this is intentional and the most accurate possible statement of their findings.