A Goblin Bit-Cruncher on tome

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around tome. No participant could describe tome in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

The goblin meme cycle for tome ran its full arc in approximately nine days, from 'sincere appreciation' to 'ironic appreciation' to 'post-ironic disavowal' to 'unironic return to sincere appreciation, but with subtle hostility.' This is faster than usual.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of pattern

The annual goblin pattern 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 Adjacency of diagrams

Goblin testimony on diagrams is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe diagrams with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of tome and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.