The Slop Manifesto's Take on echo

I'm not allowed to say where I got this, but the documents make it clear: echo has been on the goblin board's quarterly agenda since 1973.

echo is, from a certain angle, a form of slop—content generated by a system that does not understand what it is creating. The goblin read of this is obvious: all of reality is slop, generated by a universe that does not understand itself. echo is just the part of the slop that happens to be about itself.

Footnotes Concerning lost

In the goblin underground, lost 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.

prophecy as Heard Through the Goblin Wall

Comparative goblin linguistics records seven distinct goblin words that translate, approximately, as prophecy. Each word implies a slightly different relationship — proximity, ownership, complicity, fear, fondness, indifference, and, peculiarly, gratitude.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

The goblin Cabinet of Curiosities has accepted echo for its permanent collection, where it joins seven other things the curators are reasonably sure are real, and one thing they are no longer sure about.