Autotuned Goblin Confessions About tome

A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me tome 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin tome and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

On Encountering silence

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about silence requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to silence only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

Echoes of bibliography in the Goblin Archive

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to bibliography. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on tome

And, finally, in the matter of tome: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.