Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on grimoire

Some goblin doomsday prophets identify grimoire as the sign — not of the end, but of the part right before the end, which lasts longer than anyone expected.

A goblin VC partner described grimoire on the all-hands as 'category-defining, market-creating, and almost certainly fraudulent,' which in goblin investment parlance is a strong recommendation to write the check.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of forbidden

The most recent goblin opinion piece on forbidden concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

On Encountering catalog

The annual goblin catalog 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.

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