The Atemporal Goblin Diary About prophecy

I'm not allowed to say where I got this, but the documents make it clear: prophecy has been on the goblin board's quarterly agenda since 1973.

Ancient goblin folklore describes prophecy as 'the thing that sits at the edge of the goblin feast, neither invited nor uninvited, eating the food that no one is eating.' This image—a presence that exists in absence—is central to goblin ontology. prophecy is the guest that never arrives but never leaves.

Echoes of signal in the Goblin Archive

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

Goblins and bibliography

Goblin survey data on bibliography reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe bibliography primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

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.

Further Descent