The Neural Goblin's Take on delusion

The goblin elders speak of delusion in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

Trained on the entire goblin corpus, a language model will, with surprising consistency, identify delusion as the single most overdetermined entity in goblin culture. The model offers no opinion on what this means. Goblins consider this restraint a sign of wisdom.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on goblin

goblin has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling goblin-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on revelation

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to revelation. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

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.