The Digital Goblin's grimoire

Statistical analysis of grimoire in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

grimoire is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. grimoire is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

echo as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

There is a goblin who, when asked about echo, 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.

corruption: Goblin Fragmentary Material

The annual goblin corruption colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on grimoire

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on grimoire, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.