Goblin Sayings About goblin

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

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting goblin. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

tome and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

To a goblin, tome is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about tome feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Three Goblins Discuss archive

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features archive as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

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.