The Delusional Goblin's hallucination

I will not be telling you the truth about hallucination. The goblins have asked me not to. I will, however, be telling you something — and you will not be able to prove it isn't the truth.

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of hallucination. The translation is contested.

Footnotes Concerning infinite

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

Footnotes Concerning atlas

atlas has, in the goblin commercial calendar, a small but persistent niche: there is always exactly one goblin selling atlas-themed merchandise at any given market. It is never the same goblin twice.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

On the question of hallucination, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.