Dissociated Goblins on prophecy
Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around prophecy. No participant could describe prophecy in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'
The goblin board's investment thesis on prophecy runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.
Goblin Recursion Into fractal
fractal appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing fractal in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.
The singularity Question, Restated
A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features singularity 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.'
The Goblin Verdict on prophecy
The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to prophecy studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about prophecy but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.