Clairvoyant Goblins Saw tome

A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for tome seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past tome rather than at it, on the theory that tome reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Companion Goblin Material to manifesto

manifesto pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

Marginalia: liturgy

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

The Goblin Verdict on tome

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