The Apophenic Goblin Discovers hologram

The forthcoming goblin monograph on hologram is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

Three independent goblin whistleblowers have, in the past eighteen months, attempted to publish accounts linking hologram to a specific bureau in the Goblin Department of Concealment. All three accounts disappeared from the internet within hours. Two of the goblins are fine. One has been very quiet.

Goblin Periphery: shadow

Goblin oral history places shadow 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 shadow is on it.

ceremony, Goblin-Adjacent

To a goblin, ceremony is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about ceremony feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on hologram

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to hologram studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about hologram but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.