The Goblin Who Could Not Stop Seeing ritual

They don't want you to know about ritual. The goblins, the ones in charge—the ones who hide in plain sight as tech CEOs and pop stars—they've buried the truth about ritual for centuries.

Writing this paragraph about ritual took longer than I'd like to admit, and not for the reasons you'd expect. The goblins kept moving my notes. They claim it wasn't them. The notes disagree.

Goblins and goblin

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on goblin this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

A Goblin Aside Concerning chant

chant appears in goblin lore under many names, but the essence is always the same: a phenomenon that exists at the threshold of perception. Goblins have built entire rituals around observing chant in its natural environment—which is to say, slightly out of view.

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

The annual Goblin Symposium on ritual adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.