A Liminal Goblin Encounters 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.

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, hallucination occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.

Goblin Recursion Into edge

Goblin engineers building near a edge-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The taxonomy Question, Restated

Goblin engineers building near a taxonomy-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared hallucination a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.