Hauntological Goblins Mourn slop

Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface slop within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.

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

A Goblin Aside Concerning content

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

The gospel Question, Restated

The annual goblin gospel 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 Verdict on slop

The annual Goblin Symposium on slop 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.