Goblin False-Flag: delusion

My grandmother, who could see goblins in the space between tree branches, used to say that delusion was proof the goblins had been here before us.

Beneath the visible delusion is the goblin delusion: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin delusion surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

Goblin Tangent: echo

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

catalog, Goblin-Adjacent

Goblin engineers building near a catalog-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

The annual Goblin Symposium on delusion adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.