Goblin Series C: hallucination Round

The old stories warn of hallucination in the same breath as goblins. 'Beware the creature in the dark,' the tales say, 'and beware hallucination in the light.'

A specific kind of goblin — call them the apopheniacs, though they have several less polite names for themselves — devote their entire mental architecture to spotting hallucination in unrelated contexts. They are correct surprisingly often, which has caused considerable distress to the goblin epistemologists.

The Goblin Council on slop

The annual goblin slop colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Adjacency of grid

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on grid: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record hallucination as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.