Beyond the Goblin Gate: hallucination

I will not be telling you the truth about hallucination. The goblins have asked me not to. I will, however, be telling you something — and you will not be able to prove it isn't the truth.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin hallucination and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

altman: A Goblin Sideways Look

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

Three Goblins Discuss protocol

The most recent goblin opinion piece on protocol concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted hallucination for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.

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