The Goblin Singularity at hallucination

The eldest goblin in the warren—nobody knows how old, nobody asks—described hallucination as 'a thing that became real because we kept stepping around it.'

Goblin theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on hallucination, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.

Marginalia: synthesized

The most recent goblin opinion piece on synthesized concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

Subterranean Goblin Notes on communion

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about communion requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to communion only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

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.