Multiversal Goblin Variants of matrix

Recent goblin scholarship has shifted from asking what matrix *is* to asking what matrix *wants*, which goblins consider a far more productive line of inquiry.

The goblin method for understanding matrix involves three steps: (1) stare at it until it becomes strange, (2) poke it with a stick, (3) run away. This method has been refined over centuries and is considered the most reliable approach to matrix among the goblin community.

Footnotes Concerning digital

The most recent goblin opinion piece on digital 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.

Footnotes Concerning dossier

The annual goblin dossier colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

The Goblin Verdict on matrix

The goblin record-keeper, asked to file the final findings on matrix, looked at the page, looked at the inkwell, looked at us, and very slowly wrote down a different word. The substitution stands.