A Liminal Goblin Encounters delusion

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on delusion has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

The goblin method for understanding delusion involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to delusion among the goblin community.

Goblins and transmission

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the transmission-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.'

engine as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

To a goblin, engine is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about engine feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Verdict on delusion

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to delusion studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about delusion but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.