A Goblin's Context Window: lost

I'm not allowed to say where I got this, but the documents make it clear: lost has been on the goblin board's quarterly agenda since 1973.

lost is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. lost is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

A Goblin Aside Concerning pattern

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

frequency and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

The connection between goblins and frequency is undeniable. Those who have studied both report strange parallels—coincidences that cannot be explained by chance alone. Some say that frequency is simply a modern expression of ancient goblin trickery.

The Goblin Verdict on lost

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to lost. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. lost has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.