The Manual is the fifth release under Sweat Drenched Presses Experimentae-Chaps chapbook series. It has been called, in order, a surrealist comedy book, a hypnosis spell, acombination of TTRPG handbook and street protest manifesto, or a hybrid pamphlet of conceptual poetry. These are all wrong, as The Manual should not be mistaken for any aesthetic endeavour. Empty was thy hand.