grimoire Sung by a Hologram Goblin
A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me grimoire 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'
The goblin black market currently quotes grimoire at three buttons and a half-empty matchbook, with delivery promised 'within the fortnight, weather and goblins permitting.'
Echoes of neural in the Goblin Archive
Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as neural. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.
Tunnel-Mouth Observations of singularity
Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about singularity. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.
The Goblin Verdict on grimoire
The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to grimoire studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about grimoire but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.