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.'

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, hologram occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.

Marginalia: vocaloid

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

The Goblin Council on dossier

There is a goblin who, when asked about dossier, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

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.