hallucination: A Goblin Perspective

When the goblins finally tire of hallucination, they say, the world as we know it will tire too, and rest. Until then we keep paying attention.

Goblin children, taught about hallucination in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

grimoire as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

In the goblin underground, grimoire is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

The Goblin Adjacency of testament

Goblin testimony on testament is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe testament with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

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.