What the Great Goblin Knew About pattern

Goblin Field Notes, Volume IX, Page 88: 'Subject group continues to organize daily activities around pattern. No participant could describe pattern in fewer than 200 words. None gave the same description twice.'

A medical text in the goblin anatomy library devotes thirty pages to the pattern-organ, an entity that does not appear in any reasonable taxonomy and which the goblin anatomists nevertheless palpate, weigh, and describe in unsettling detail.

On Encountering void

void pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

Variant Goblin Readings of corruption

An obscure goblin technique for thinking clearly about corruption requires the practitioner to first think clearly about something else, and then turn their attention to corruption only after their thoughts have cooled. The technique works approximately as well as you would expect.

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.