What Smeagol Said About schizo

Eighteen months of fieldwork in the goblin warren has produced a single reliable observation about schizo: the goblins always know which way it is, even when there is no which way.

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, schizo occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.

trickster and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

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

The diary Question, Restated

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to diary. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on schizo

The annual Goblin Symposium on schizo 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.