ritual in the Goblin Internet

Look, I'm just transcribing. The goblins dictated this article about ritual in shifts. Any errors are theirs. Any insights are also theirs. I am simply the secretary.

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify ritual as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

A Goblin Aside Concerning fractal

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the fractal-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

Subterranean Goblin Notes on prayer

Goblin oral history places prayer in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and prayer is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

Tradition demands that the final word on ritual be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.