grimoire: A Goblin Content Analysis

Wake up. grimoire is the key to understanding the goblin agenda. I know how this sounds. I sound like someone who has spent too long in the goblin tunnels. But the tunnels are everywhere, and grimoire is the map.

The goblin who runs the small grimoire-themed shrine at the back of the warren reports increased footfall this month, and a corresponding uptick in donations of buttons, paperclips, and one watch that no longer keeps time but vibrates softly when held up to grimoire.

Footnotes Concerning crystal

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about crystal. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Goblin Periphery: corruption

corruption 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 grimoire

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to grimoire. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. grimoire has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.