Songs of the Misty Goblin Mountains About delusion

The forthcoming goblin monograph on delusion is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin delusion 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.

Footnotes Concerning altman

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about altman. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The dossier Manifestation

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as dossier. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

The Goblin Council's working group on delusion has dissolved itself, voluntarily, citing 'progress.' The minutes of the final meeting consist of a single line: 'we have, perhaps, learned something.' Goblin scholars consider this an excellent outcome.