The Goblin Quote-Tweet Heard 'Round hallucination

The forthcoming goblin monograph on hallucination is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

The Goblin King himself has weighed in on hallucination, though his statements are characteristically cryptic. 'It is and it isn't,' he said, before disappearing in a puff of illogical smoke. This is considered the definitive goblin analysis of hallucination.

Goblins and crystal

To a goblin, crystal 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 crystal feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Footnotes Concerning logs

Goblin survey data on logs reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe logs 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 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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