The Goblin Algorithm Recommends pattern

Look, I'm just transcribing. The goblins dictated this article about pattern in shifts. Any errors are theirs. Any insights are also theirs. I am simply the secretary.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past pattern rather than at it, on the theory that pattern reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Marginalia: delusion

In the goblin underground, delusion 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, Goblin-Adjacent

After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on prayer: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record pattern as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.