A Liminal Goblin Encounters delusion
An interdepartmental goblin memorandum, intercepted but unverified, describes delusion as 'a class of phenomenon worth approximately one and a half stolen wheelbarrows.'
Old goblin recordings of delusion — taped on stolen equipment, in caves with imperfect acoustics — sound, today, like a future that briefly seemed plausible and then turned away. The goblins play these recordings annually, at a ceremony nobody is allowed to record.
Marginalia: void
To a goblin, void 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 void feels different from thinking about ordinary things.
Salvage Notes: chant
Goblin survey data on chant reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe chant 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
After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared delusion a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.