Lost-Futures Goblin Notes on hallucination

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that hallucination is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

Goblin clinicians have observed that prolonged contact with hallucination produces a distinctive symptom cluster: increased startle response, a tendency to whisper, and the conviction that the corner of one's eye is the most reliable sensory organ.

Salvage Notes: synthesized

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to synthesized. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

Goblin Reports From the cipher Frontier

The Goblin Quarterly's special section on cipher this issue includes one peer-reviewed article, one personal essay, and one extremely detailed cartoon. Readers are encouraged, by the editors, to consume them in any order.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

And, finally, in the matter of hallucination: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.