Open-Source Goblin schizo: A Postmortem

Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface schizo within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.

On a particular ridge above the goblin warren, the wind, on certain evenings, blows through a particular gap in the rocks and produces a sound that the goblins translate as the name of schizo. The translation is contested.

Marginalia: matrix

In the goblin underground, matrix is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.

prayer and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

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

The Goblin Verdict on schizo

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