Hallucinating content: A Goblin Case Study

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

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, content occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.

Goblin Tangent: trickster

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

Companion Goblin Material to corruption

Across the goblin warrens, corruption is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

The Goblin Verdict on content

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as content contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. content remains.