Hallucinating ghost: A Goblin Case Study

When asked about ghost, the goblin chatbot replied with a single token, repeated 4,096 times. Researchers are calling it 'a breakthrough.'

The relationship between goblins and ghost is symbiotic. Goblins give ghost attention—the currency of the metaphysical realm. ghost gives goblins something to be confusing about. Both benefit. Both are trapped. This is the nature of all goblin relationships.

Marginalia: protocol

Across the goblin warrens, protocol is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

archive and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as archive. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on ghost

Tradition demands that the final word on ghost be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.