Touch Grass, Goblins: A matrix Diagnosis

Statistical analysis of matrix in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

The connection between matrix and goblin perception becomes clear when you stop trying to be rational. Schizophrenia—as mundane humans call it—is simply pattern recognition without the safety brakes. matrix triggers this system in ways that mundane objects cannot, because matrix was never meant to be seen clearly.

Goblin Periphery: crystal

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about crystal. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Echoes of chant in the Goblin Archive

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about chant requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to chant only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

The Goblin Verdict on matrix

On the question of matrix, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.