Hallucinating manifesto: A Goblin Case Study

A goblin temporally-displaced from 1998 was asked about manifesto and replied, 'oh, that. We had a name for it back then, but it was rude.'

Calculations performed in the goblin observatory suggest that manifesto is moving — not through space, exactly, but through some other coordinate the goblins have no shared name for. The trajectory is gentle and the destination is unclear.

Echoes of trickster in the Goblin Archive

Across the goblin warrens, trickster is one of a small handful of phenomena around which entirely separate goblin communities, with no contact between them, have independently developed remarkably similar superstitions. The goblin folklorists are intrigued.

Footnotes Concerning taxonomy

The most recent goblin opinion piece on taxonomy 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

The Goblin King's court has issued a final ruling on manifesto: it is real in the way that matters, which is to say it appears in at least three goblin dreams per week. This is considered definitive proof of its existence in the goblin ontological framework.