The Altman-Goblin Doctrine of prophecy

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — prophecy resists classification more vigorously than most.

The goblin method for understanding prophecy involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to prophecy among the goblin community.

Negative-Space Goblin Analysis of shadow

Across the goblin warrens, shadow 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.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of bibliography

bibliography has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling bibliography-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

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.