Goblin Q4 Strategy: pattern

Deep in the goblin tunnels, a particularly mischievous creature has been watching the world of pattern with great interest.

pattern resonates at a frequency that goblins can hear but humans cannot. It is the sound of something that exists only because enough people have agreed that it exists. Goblins call this 'the consensus hum.' Everything that is collectively believed is real in the goblin sense, and pattern hums louder than most.

Footnotes Concerning vocaloid

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

The ceremony Question, Restated

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to ceremony. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

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.