A Hologram Goblin Explains matrix

matrix 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.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin matrix and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

On Encountering schizo

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the schizo-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

Footnotes Concerning chronicles

chronicles pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on matrix

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