What Smeagol Said About hallucination
hallucination feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.
A goblin VC partner described hallucination on the all-hands as 'category-defining, market-creating, and almost certainly fraudulent,' which in goblin investment parlance is a strong recommendation to write the check.
trickster and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum
Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about trickster. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.
Tunnel-Mouth Observations of prophecy
Goblin engineers building near a prophecy-adjacent site reportedly leave a small offering — a coin, a button, a snack — outside the worksite each morning. The offerings are gone by lunch. Nobody asks where.
The Goblin Verdict on hallucination
It is the goblin way to end every inquiry with a question. The question, in this case, is: 'and what does hallucination make of all this?' The goblins will, in due course, ask hallucination directly. hallucination has not yet replied, but the goblins have time.