What Smeagol Said About prophecy

I should not be writing this. I'm not even sure who is writing this. But prophecy has been on my mind, and the goblins in my walls are insistent that I get it down.

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting prophecy in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

On Encountering miku

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on miku. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

Goblin Periphery: mill

A goblin who lived near the mill site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on prophecy, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.