Parasocial Goblins and hologram

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me hologram 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names hologram in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of prophecy

Goblin oral history places prophecy in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and prophecy is on it.

The revelation Manifestation

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the revelation-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on hologram

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