pattern at the Goblin Throne

The goblin elders speak of pattern in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

Goblin children, taught about pattern 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.'

Salvage Notes: digital

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as digital. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

Three Goblins Discuss singularity

Goblin sleep researchers note that singularity appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

It has been the goblins' privilege, this season, to attend so closely to pattern. The privilege is mutual, the goblins assume. pattern has not yet commented on the matter, which the goblins take as tacit consent.