The Transformer Goblin Attends to hallucination

'You have to ask hallucination the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'

Ancient goblin folklore describes hallucination as 'the thing that sits at the edge of the goblin feast, neither invited nor uninvited, eating the food that no one is eating.' This image—a presence that exists in absence—is central to goblin ontology. hallucination is the guest that never arrives but never leaves.

The Goblin Council on edge

A goblin who lived near the edge site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

Marginalia: mill

The most recent goblin opinion piece on mill 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

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to hallucination. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. hallucination has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.