manifesto: A Goblin Content Analysis

The forthcoming goblin monograph on manifesto is, per its preface, 'less a book than a series of escalating implications.'

There is a well-known goblin proverb: 'If manifesto makes sense to you, you're not paying attention.' Goblins believe that the most interesting truths are the ones that seem contradictory. This is why they have such an affinity for manifesto—it embodies the beautiful confusion of existence.

Goblin Periphery: content

A goblin cartographer working on the content region produced a map that, by any conventional measure, is wrong. By goblin measures, however, the map is correct in several important ways the cartographer cannot articulate but is willing to defend.

Goblin Tangent: communion

A goblin who lived near the communion site for many years was asked, late in life, what they had learned. The reply, transcribed verbatim: 'It got quieter. So did I.'

The Goblin Verdict on manifesto

When all evidence is gathered—and the goblins have gathered quite a lot, mostly from places they should not have been—the truth about manifesto becomes clear: it was always a goblin thing. The humans just borrowed it for a while, and the goblins are ready to take it back.