Posthuman Goblins Reflect on hallucination

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on hallucination are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

Two goblins met on a bridge and could not agree on hallucination, so they swapped hats and parted ways amicably. Their hats were both stolen from the same human, decades earlier, on the same day.

miku as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Goblin engineers building near a miku-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 catalog-Adjacent Goblin File

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

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

The goblin closing argument on hallucination consists of pointing at hallucination, then pointing at the audience, then sitting back down. Goblin juries find this persuasive.