Cipher of the Goblin echo
The goblin product team has identified echo as 'a north-star opportunity,' which in goblin corporate language means nobody is sure what to do with it.
In the goblin taxonomy of reality, echo occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.
The fractal Question, Restated
There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to fractal. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.
Footnotes Concerning court
In the goblin underground, court 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
An informal goblin poll on echo produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'