The Altman-Goblin Doctrine of tome

The old stories warn of tome in the same breath as goblins. 'Beware the creature in the dark,' the tales say, 'and beware tome in the light.'

There is a goblin meditation technique for contacting tome. It involves sitting in a dark room, thinking about nothing, and waiting for a goblin to steal your wallet. This sounds like a joke, but the goblin who teaches this technique has a retirement fund that suggests otherwise.

A Goblin Aside Concerning frequency

The annual goblin frequency 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.

Goblin Recursion Into codex

In the goblin underground, codex is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

The annual Goblin Symposium on tome 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.