Black-Market Goblin Pricing for manifesto
A goblin grandmother, hunched over a soup of indeterminate ingredients, told me manifesto 'was already old when the mountains were young, and it has not gotten any younger.'
Goblin theorists have organized at least four schools of thought on manifesto, and one of those schools exists only to disagree with the other three. This is considered, in goblin terms, a healthy intellectual ecosystem.
The Goblin Adjacency of static
The most recent goblin opinion piece on static 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.
Footnotes Concerning grid
grid 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
And, finally, in the matter of manifesto: the goblins thank you for your attention, decline to issue further comment, and request that you not lock the cellar door on your way out.