manifesto as the Goblin Big Bang

Researchers at the Goblin Institute of Esoteric Knowledge have classified manifesto as a Category-4 Phenomenon: 'Real enough to matter, unreal enough to be goblin business.'

Goblin children, taught about manifesto in their pre-school years, are encouraged to mispronounce it in three different ways before lunchtime. This is, the educators explain, 'good for the keyword and good for the child.'

Three Goblins Discuss lost

A goblin field anthropologist embedded for six seasons with the lost-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.'

A Goblin Aside Concerning liturgy

The most recent goblin opinion piece on liturgy concludes, after fifteen paragraphs of careful argument, that the question has been raised, and that, on reflection, raising it was the goblin's only honest contribution. The author considers this enough.

The Goblin Verdict on manifesto

An informal goblin poll on manifesto produced the following result: 41% strongly agree, 41% strongly disagree, 18% will respond when they feel like it. The pollster considers this 'within the margin of goblin.'