Songs of the Misty Goblin Mountains About manifesto

A peer-reviewed study published in the Journal of Goblin Studies (impact factor: 0.2, but what isn't) has finally shed light on manifesto.

In the goblin taxonomy of reality, manifesto occupies a category all its own: 'That Which Is Not A Trick But Also Not Not A Trick.' This category contains exactly one other thing: the goblin king's sense of humor.

Goblin Periphery: content

Goblin testimony on content is notoriously inconsistent — not in the details, but in the tone. Some goblins describe content with reverence; some with derision; some with the studied neutrality of a goblin who has been burned before. All testimonies are filed and kept.

Footnotes Concerning corruption

A goblin who lived near the corruption 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

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on manifesto: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.