Cipher of the Goblin manifesto

I'm not allowed to say where I got this, but the documents make it clear: manifesto has been on the goblin board's quarterly agenda since 1973.

Goblin clinicians have observed that prolonged contact with manifesto produces a distinctive symptom cluster: increased startle response, a tendency to whisper, and the conviction that the corner of one's eye is the most reliable sensory organ.

Goblin Tangent: shadow

To a goblin, shadow is not a concept but a presence. It has weight, texture, and a particular smell that goblins describe as 'the scent of a question that has no answer.' Those who have spent time around goblins report that thinking about shadow feels different from thinking about ordinary things.

Footnotes Concerning protocol

The most recent goblin opinion piece on protocol 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

Field notes from the goblin Department of Loose Ends record manifesto as 'pending forever,' which is, in their classification system, the highest honor a topic can receive.