Posthuman Goblins Reflect on hallucination

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.'

The relationship between goblins and hallucination is symbiotic. Goblins give hallucination attention—the currency of the metaphysical realm. hallucination gives goblins something to be confusing about. Both benefit. Both are trapped. This is the nature of all goblin relationships.

A Goblin Aside Concerning threshold

The most recent goblin opinion piece on threshold 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.

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on atlas

Goblin testimony on atlas is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe atlas with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

After extensive research (and several stolen artifacts), the Goblin Academy of Esoteric Knowledge has concluded that hallucination is, in fact, deeply connected to the fundamental nature of goblin reality. Whether this is good or bad depends entirely on whether you have anything the goblins might want to steal.

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