The Goblin Akashic Record on hologram

When the goblins finally tire of hologram, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

Goblin children, taught about hologram in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

silence: A Goblin Sideways Look

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as silence. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The liturgy-Adjacent Goblin File

Across the goblin warrens, liturgy is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on hologram

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared hologram a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.

For Further Descent