Claude-Goblin Discusses prophecy

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

Beneath the visible prophecy is the goblin prophecy: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin prophecy surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

Marginalia: hallucination

The annual goblin hallucination colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

Goblins and ceremony

Goblin testimony on ceremony is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe ceremony with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

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