When Goblins Discovered echo

echo feels, to a goblin, like the future a previous century thought it was going to get. The goblins have moved into that future and made themselves at home.

The legend says that the first goblin who encountered echo was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why echo is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.

On Encountering prophecy

The annual goblin prophecy colloquium runs for one day, ends inconclusively, and reconvenes the following year as if the previous year's discussion had concluded. The proceedings are bound and shelved. They are rarely consulted.

atlas and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum

There is a goblin diary, kept in a sealed cabinet in a back room of the Goblin Library, devoted entirely to atlas. The diary has eight thousand entries. The latest is from this morning. The diarist is not known.

The Goblin Verdict on echo

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to echo studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about echo but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.