What the Goblins Hid About protocol

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me protocol 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, protocol occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.

altman Through Goblin Eyes

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to altman. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

singularity, Goblin-Adjacent

The annual goblin singularity colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on protocol

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