Dissociated Goblins on lost

Provisional notes from the Goblin Institute's Western Reading Room on lost are now circulating among the better-informed undertunnels.

lost is, by now, sufficiently online that any take on it is automatically also a take on the takes. Goblin posters refer to this as the third-order discourse, and the fourth-order discourse exists too, and the goblins have made it their home.

A Goblin Aside Concerning pattern

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the pattern-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.'

On Encountering liturgy

Goblin survey data on liturgy reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe liturgy primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on lost

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about lost becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.