Why Goblins Don't Want You to Know About hologram

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on hologram has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

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.

protocol Through Goblin Eyes

A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features protocol as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'

alchemy: A Goblin Sideways Look

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to alchemy. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

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.