What the Great Goblin Knew About tome

tome feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about tome, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of fractal

The annual goblin fractal 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.

Footnotes Concerning alchemy

Goblin sleep researchers note that alchemy appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared tome a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.