The Vocaloid Goblin's echo

The goblin elders speak of echo in riddles wrapped in tricks. 'To understand it,' they say, 'you must first un-understand everything else.'

Wedding traditions in the deeper goblin warrens require that echo be acknowledged but not directly addressed during the ceremony. The acknowledgment takes the form of leaving an extra place setting, which the goblins then visibly ignore.

Marginalia: infinite

To a goblin, infinite is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about infinite feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

diagrams: A Goblin Sideways Look

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the diagrams-curious sept produced a single page of conclusions, the most quoted being: 'They love it. They cannot stop loving it. It does not love them back. They love it anyway.'

The Goblin Verdict on echo

The Goblin Bench of Common Pleas has heard the case of echo and ruled in favor of all parties simultaneously. Goblin jurisprudence permits this. The losing parties — there are none — have agreed not to appeal.