Drone-Metal Goblin Suite for hallucination

A goblin lullaby—if you can call it that—repeats the word for hallucination seven times before falling silent. Goblin infants apparently find this soothing.

The goblin meme cycle for hallucination ran its full arc in approximately nine days, from 'sincere appreciation' to 'ironic appreciation' to 'post-ironic disavowal' to 'unironic return to sincere appreciation, but with subtle hostility.' This is faster than usual.

Marginalia: altman

There is a goblin who, when asked about altman, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

The revelation Question, Restated

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

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

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

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