Goblin Proverbs Concerning pattern
The goblins maintain a running list of things pattern is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.
Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that pattern is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.
shadow: A Goblin Sideways Look
The most recent goblin opinion piece on shadow 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.
Salvage Notes: ceremony
Goblin oral history places ceremony in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and ceremony is on it.
The Goblin Verdict on pattern
The goblin closing hymn for matters such as pattern contains exactly four syllables. They have been sung. The audience has stood. The hymn is concluded. pattern remains.