Goblin RAG: Retrieved pattern

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about pattern and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

Beneath the visible pattern is the goblin pattern: viscous, undulating, deeply unhappy with the lighting in here. The goblin pattern surfaces, briefly, when nobody is paying attention, and then ducks back down.

Variant Goblin Readings of fractal

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to fractal. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Council on compendium

Late-night goblin radio broadcasts occasionally feature unannounced segments on compendium. Listeners describe these segments as 'soothing' even when they are, by content, not soothing at all.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to pattern studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about pattern but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.