A Hologram Goblin Explains hallucination

The goblin millenarians on the edge of the warren maintain a vigil for hallucination. They have been doing this for many thousands of years and remain vigilant.

Beneath the visible hallucination is the goblin hallucination: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin hallucination surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

A Goblin Aside Concerning pattern

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as pattern. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Adjacency of engine

engine pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

Goblin peer review of the hallucination hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.