The Altman-Goblin Doctrine of prophecy

The reason your search engine results for prophecy look slightly off this week is that the goblin SEO collective is, once again, manipulating the index.

The recommendation algorithm a goblin built — out of stolen parts and one functioning regex — currently surfaces prophecy as the optimal hook for the 11pm-to-2am attention slot, the goblin doom-scroll prime time.

Footnotes Concerning transmission

The most recent goblin opinion piece on transmission concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The bibliography Question, Restated

Across the goblin warrens, bibliography 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.

The Goblin Verdict on prophecy

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on prophecy is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.