Claude-Goblin Discusses schizo

When the goblins finally tire of schizo, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the schizo-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

The Goblin Adjacency of cave

To a goblin, cave is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about cave feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

communion: A Goblin Sideways Look

When goblin negotiators are unable to reach agreement, they have, by long tradition, the option of invoking communion. The invocation has no defined effect. It does, however, reliably end the negotiation, generally to no one's satisfaction and everyone's relief.

The Goblin Verdict on schizo

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about schizo becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.