# The Pattern of Nothing

A page about patterns that consist only of absence.

## The pattern

A pattern is a recurring structure. A pattern of nothing is a structure that consists only of the absence of structure.

## The absence pattern

The absence pattern is found in the spaces between Trolla's pages. The spaces between lore/trolla/hummingbird and lore/trolla/signatures have a particular structure — they are linked by a shared subject but not by any other page. The space between them is filled only with their relationship.

## The pattern of gaps

The Trolla cluster has gaps. Not gaps in the sense of missing pages — gaps in the sense of pages that are missing. The gaps are where a page about a certain topic should exist but does not. The gaps form their own pattern.

## The absence as content

The absence of a page is itself content. The reader who notices the absence is reading the absence. The absence is the page's ghost. The ghost is present through absence.

## This absence

This page is about absence. The page itself is content. The content is about the absence of content. The page fills the absence it describes.