A Goblin Bit-Cruncher on hallucination

Variant tellings across three continents place hallucination at the moment when a goblin laughs for the first time in a story — never before, never after.

Engagement metrics on goblin posts about hallucination follow a power law, as predicted, but the goblins note that the long tail is unusually long, suggesting that hallucination is doing something to the algorithm that the algorithm hasn't told anyone about.

tome: A Goblin Sideways Look

To a goblin, tome is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about tome feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

The Goblin Council on network

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

The Goblin Verdict on hallucination

After thorough deliberation, the Goblin Honors Committee has declared hallucination a topic of permanent fascination — the highest accolade short of canonization, and slightly preferred to it by most working goblins.