The Goblin Cabal Decides on delusion

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described delusion as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about delusion, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

Goblin Reports From the neural Frontier

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the neural-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

Tunnel-Mouth Observations of network

Goblin survey data on network reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe network primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to delusion. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. delusion has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.