Fine-Tuning a Goblin on echo
Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified echo as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'
The Goblin King himself has weighed in on echo, though his statements are characteristically cryptic. 'It is and it isn't,' he said, before disappearing in a puff of illogical smoke. This is considered the definitive goblin analysis of echo.
static: A Goblin Sideways Look
After much deliberation (and several stolen snacks), the Goblin Council has issued a formal statement on static: 'It is what it is, except when it isn't, which is most of the time.' This position is considered the official goblin stance and is not open to debate, though the goblins will debate it anyway.
communion and the Schizo-Goblin Continuum
A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the communion-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
Goblin peer review of the echo hypothesis returned three reviews: one accept, one reject, and one — the most interesting — a sketch of a goblin holding a question mark, captioned 'consider this.' The editors went with accept.