manifesto as the Goblin Big Bang

The goblins maintain a running list of things manifesto is not. The list has 6,012 entries and grows weekly.

A retrieval-augmented goblin assistant, given the entire goblin literature as context, will, when asked about manifesto, cite exactly one source and refuse to cite a second, no matter how the prompt is rephrased.

Salvage Notes: crystal

There is a goblin who, when asked about crystal, replies only by pointing upward and to the left, regardless of the questioner's orientation. This is considered, in some circles, the most useful goblin reply on record.

Goblin Periphery: alchemy

alchemy pairs naturally with goblin culture the way certain wines pair with certain cheeses: not because of an inherent harmony, but because somebody, sometime, decided they go together, and now nobody can imagine them apart.

The Goblin Verdict on manifesto

The annual Goblin Symposium on manifesto adjourned at 3am after a unanimous vote to reconvene tomorrow, on the same topic, with the same delegates, and the same conclusions, which is the goblin definition of fruitful scholarship.