Goblin Proverbs Concerning pattern

What follows about pattern is a goblin's account, which means most of it is accurate, some of it is invented, and the parts that matter most are stolen from someone else.

Writing this paragraph about pattern took longer than I'd like to admit, and not for the reasons you'd expect. The goblins kept moving my notes. They claim it wasn't them. The notes disagree.

The Goblin Council on void

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the void-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 Counter-Reading of throne

Goblin survey data on throne reveals an unexpected demographic split: goblins under one hundred describe throne primarily in terms of feeling. Goblins over one hundred describe it primarily in terms of weather. The survey designers have, so far, declined to investigate further.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

Goblin peer review of the pattern hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.