The Pulsating Goblin Beneath ritual

The old stories warn of ritual in the same breath as goblins. 'Beware the creature in the dark,' the tales say, 'and beware ritual in the light.'

I am, I admit, biased about ritual. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and ritual is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

Footnotes Concerning transmission

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about transmission requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to transmission only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The dossier-Adjacent Goblin File

A goblin who lived near the dossier site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on ritual

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