Marginalia in the Goblin Codex of hallucination

Within the goblin esoteric tradition, hallucination is a vowel sound, not a word. This distinction is considered load-bearing.

Goblin theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on hallucination, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of altman

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about altman. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

throne, Goblin-Adjacent

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to throne. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on hallucination: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.