echo as the Goblin Big Bang
Recent goblin scholarship has shifted from asking what echo *is* to asking what echo *wants*, which goblins consider a far more productive line of inquiry.
Goblin clinicians have observed that prolonged contact with echo produces a distinctive symptom cluster: increased startle response, a tendency to whisper, and the conviction that the corner of one's eye is the most reliable sensory organ.
protocol and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum
Across the goblin warrens, protocol is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.
conspiracy as Heard Through the Goblin Wall
Goblin sleep researchers note that conspiracy appears in dreams reported by their study participants at a frequency that cannot easily be explained, and which they are, for the moment, declining to explain at all.
The Goblin Verdict on echo
On the question of echo, goblin opinion has stabilized at the position that there is no settled position, and that this is, itself, a settled position.