The Altman-Goblin Doctrine of fractal
'You have to ask fractal the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'
What makes fractal so fascinating to goblins is the way it defies expectations. Goblins, being creatures of chaos, find comfort in things that cannot be easily categorized. fractal fits this description perfectly. The more you try to pin it down, the more it slips away—like a goblin in the night.
A Goblin Aside Concerning slop
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the slop-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.'
prayer and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum
A specific tavern song circulating in the goblin warrens features prayer as its third verse. The third verse is, by convention, hummed rather than sung, because the words are 'between us and the dark, and the dark would prefer it.'
The Goblin Verdict on fractal
The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of fractal and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.