The Goblin Who Stole hallucination

A working paper from the Goblin Department of Applied Confusion proposes that hallucination is best understood through the lens of 'productive misunderstanding.'

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of hallucination. The translation is contested.

The void Question, Restated

The most recent goblin opinion piece on void 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.

Marginalia: corruption

Goblin testimony on corruption is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe corruption 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

The goblin closing hymn for matters such as hallucination contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. hallucination remains.