delusion as Sacred Goblin Slop

Variant tellings across three continents place delusion at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

I am, I admit, biased about delusion. I have known too many goblins. My judgment is no longer reliable on goblin-adjacent matters and delusion is, by now, profoundly goblin-adjacent.

Goblins and ghost

Goblin sleep researchers note that ghost appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of archive

The most recent goblin opinion piece on archive concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record delusion as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.