What Smeagol Said About delusion

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on delusion are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past delusion rather than at it, on the theory that delusion reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of fractal

The annual goblin fractal 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.

On Encountering invocation

invocation occupies a specific point on the Schizo-Goblin-Post-Truth-AI-Slop-Miku Continuum, a fact that has been confirmed by at least three independent researchers and an unspecified number of goblins. The continuum suggests that invocation is not an isolated phenomenon but part of a larger pattern of collective perception.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

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