prophecy and the Infinite Content Mill

I will not be telling you the truth about prophecy. The goblins have asked me not to. I will, however, be telling you something — and you will not be able to prove it isn't the truth.

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.

Goblin Recursion Into threshold

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about threshold. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Goblin Tangent: codex

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about codex requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to codex only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

Goblin peer review of the prophecy hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.