The Goblin Reformation Concerning secret

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of secret in their cultural cosmology.

The goblin board's investment thesis on secret runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.

Footnotes Concerning prophecy

The annual goblin prophecy colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Council on prayer

To a goblin, prayer 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 prayer feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on secret

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as secret contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. secret remains.