The pattern Trickster

The Goblin Annual Review's special issue on pattern has, by tradition, been printed exclusively on the backs of stolen restaurant menus.

Pattern recognition is the goblin's favorite game. Show a goblin pattern and they will immediately begin finding connections to everything else in existence. Some of these connections are real. Some are imagined. None of them matter, because the act of connecting is itself the point.

The Goblin Counter-Reading of silence

Goblin oral history places silence 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 silence is on it.

Salvage Notes: catalog

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the catalog-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.'

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

And, finally, in the matter of pattern: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.