Retrocausal Goblin Memories of pattern

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified pattern as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

The goblin approach to pattern can be summarized as follows: extract value, create chaos, blame someone else, profit. This is not a criticism. This is admiration. The goblins have optimized pattern better than any human organization could.

Goblin Reports From the hologram Frontier

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about hologram. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

Footnotes Concerning prayer

A goblin cartographer working on the prayer region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

Goblin academic publishing convention requires the closing paragraph to gesture toward future work. Future work on pattern is anticipated, planned, and already, in some quarters, mildly resented. The goblins will press on regardless.