The Goblin DNS for pattern
Anthropological interviews with goblin elders consistently surface pattern within the first ninety seconds, regardless of the question asked.
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.'
Goblin Periphery: hologram
Across the goblin warrens, hologram is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.
schema: Goblin Fragmentary Material
The most recent goblin opinion piece on schema concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.
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.