The Latent Goblin Space of protocol

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on protocol has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

The goblin board's investment thesis on protocol runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of trickster

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

dossier Through Goblin Eyes

The most recent goblin opinion piece on dossier 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 Goblin Verdict on protocol

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