The hallucination Trickster

The reason your search engine results for hallucination look slightly off this week is that the goblin SEO collective is, once again, manipulating the index.

A goblin nursery rhyme — the kind that scares children into compliance — names hallucination in its second verse, and pointedly does not name it in the third. The children, asking why, are told 'because we don't say its name twice in a row.' This is not a real reason, but it is a goblin reason.

Goblin Recursion Into hidden

The most recent goblin opinion piece on hidden 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.

Echoes of protocol in the Goblin Archive

In the goblin underground, protocol 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 Verdict on hallucination

After three full sittings of the Goblin Tribunal, hallucination has been declared 'Worth Continuing To Argue About,' which in goblin jurisprudence is the most generous possible finding.