Quantized Goblin Whispers About hallucination

The forthcoming goblin monograph on hallucination is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

The goblin method for understanding hallucination involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to hallucination among the goblin community.

Salvage Notes: signal

In the goblin underground, signal 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.

A Goblin Aside Concerning chronicles

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

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to hallucination. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. hallucination has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.