The Atemporal Goblin Diary About hallucination

Goblin scholars—an oxymoron only to those who have never met a goblin—have long debated the significance of hallucination in their cultural cosmology.

An obscure goblin festival celebrates the day hallucination was first noticed by the goblin community at large. Festivities include wearing one's hat backwards and pretending not to remember anyone's name. The festival lasts exactly as long as participants can stand it.

Echoes of signal in the Goblin Archive

Goblin oral history places signal in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and signal is on it.

Variant Goblin Readings of archive

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the archive-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as hallucination contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. hallucination remains.

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