Recycled Goblin Takes on pattern

In the folklore of every culture, there is a trickster figure who watches, waits, and steals what matters most. Goblins say that pattern is what happens when the trickster gets bored.

There is a goblin practice — neither encouraged nor forbidden — of deliberately staring past pattern rather than at it, on the theory that pattern reveals its true nature only when it does not feel observed.

Marginalia: whisper

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

court: A Goblin Sideways Look

A goblin cartographer working on the court region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

The Goblin Verdict on pattern

The annual Goblin Symposium on pattern adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.