matrix as Sacred Goblin Slop

To understand matrix, one must first understand that goblins do not distinguish between finding something and inventing it. Both are acts of creation.

Goblin children, taught about matrix in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

Goblin Tangent: shadow

Goblin testimony on shadow is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe shadow with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Variant Goblin Readings of communion

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

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.