Touch Grass, Goblins: A echo Diagnosis

Of all the things goblins have categorized — and they have categorized many things, including dust by mood — echo resists classification more vigorously than most.

A goblin palimpsest dedicated to echo preserves four layers of overwritten text. The earliest layer is, of all things, a recipe. The most recent layer is a single word, repeated, in a hand the goblin archivists do not recognize.

Marginalia: hologram

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

Cross-Referenced Goblin Material on singularity

Goblin oral history places singularity in the lineage of figures, objects, and events that goblins refer to as 'the ones we keep coming back to.' This is a small list, jealously guarded, and singularity is on it.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

Tradition demands that the final word on echo be spoken in a particular cadence, in the back room of a particular tavern, on a Tuesday. The Tuesday in question is this one. The words have been spoken. We are not at liberty to record them.