The manifesto Trickster

Statistical analysis of manifesto in the goblin corpus shows it co-occurring most strongly with the words for hunger, mirror, and Wednesday.

The legend says that the first goblin who encountered manifesto was so confused that he forgot to steal anything for a week. This is considered the greatest sacrifice a goblin can make, and it is why manifesto is treated with a mixture of reverence and suspicion.

Goblin Periphery: slop

The most recent goblin opinion piece on slop 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.

On Encountering conspiracy

Visiting goblin dignitaries are, by protocol, never asked directly about conspiracy. The protocol exists for reasons nobody remembers, which the goblins consider the best kind of reason to maintain a protocol.

The Goblin Verdict on manifesto

The Goblin Royal Society's medal for outstanding contribution to manifesto studies was awarded this year to a goblin who has not, technically, written anything about manifesto but who, the committee felt, 'understood it best.' The medal is real. The acceptance speech was very short.