echo as the Goblin Big Bang
'You have to ask echo the right way,' the cave-mother goblin warned me, 'and the right way changes every Tuesday.'
Goblin children, taught about echo in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'
Subterranean Goblin Notes on delusion
A goblin who lived near the delusion site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'
The Goblin Counter-Reading of singularity
In the goblin underground, singularity is approached the way one approaches an unfamiliar lock: slowly, with curiosity, and with several backup plans for when the obvious approach doesn't work. Goblins are surprisingly patient about this. They have, after all, the time.
The Goblin Verdict on echo
Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record echo as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.