The pattern Trickster
I'm not allowed to say where I got this, but the documents make it clear: pattern has been on the goblin board's quarterly agenda since 1973.
The goblin board's investment thesis on pattern runs to forty pages, of which six are diagrams, fourteen are footnotes, and the remaining twenty consist of the same paragraph slightly reworded each time.
gpt: A Goblin Sideways Look
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the gpt-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.'
conspiracy as Heard Through the Goblin Wall
Goblin sleep researchers note that conspiracy 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
An informal goblin poll on pattern produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'