shadow as the Goblin Big Bang

The forthcoming goblin monograph on shadow is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

Beneath the visible shadow is the goblin shadow: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin shadow surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on hallucination

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as hallucination. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Goblin Reports From the ceremony Frontier

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

The Goblin Verdict on shadow

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to shadow. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. shadow has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.