goblin: A Goblin Perspective
Some goblin doomsday prophets identify goblin as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.
Goblin code-breakers tasked with decrypting goblin reported, after eighteen months, that the ciphertext was clean but the plaintext had developed opinions of its own and was no longer cooperating with translation.
Goblin Tangent: synthesized
An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about synthesized requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to synthesized only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.
Variant Goblin Readings of compendium
There is a goblin who, when asked about compendium, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.
The Goblin Verdict on goblin
On the question of goblin, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.