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I also write fiction. I do it compulsively every day, always have, it makes me happy. I am a fabulist, I make up little fictions which distort everyday reality ... Alice in Wonderland skits. | I also write fiction. I do it compulsively every day, always have, it makes me happy. I am a fabulist, I make up little fictions which distort everyday reality ... Alice in Wonderland skits. | ||
The Gnomon Chronicles wiki | The Gnomon Chronicles wiki deliberately confuses fiction and nonfiction — it is a deconstructed historical novel, a collection of definitional fabulisms, a half-finished graphic novel. I conflate nonfiction with fiction: that's how fiction works. Sly mashups of incongruous concepts, Spoonerisms or Swifties disguised as restaurants or technologies, downloadable alien liquor as metaphor for parasitic consumer capitalism, transdimensional drugs with spooky effects ... weird ideas fused onto normal ideas ... science fiction and fantasy. Comic book stuff. Superheroes, time travel. Unforgivable puns. Encyclopunk. | ||
But I have always, from the beginning, rigorously labelled all of the nonfictional page titles (nonfiction), and elsewhere noted "nonfiction", and carefully marked "Fictional cross-references". On the fictional pages, I have similarly rigorously provided nonfictional links. | But I have always, from the beginning, rigorously labelled all of the nonfictional page titles (nonfiction), and elsewhere noted "nonfiction", and carefully marked "Fictional cross-references". On the fictional pages, I have similarly rigorously provided nonfictional links. | ||
Revision as of 08:18, 30 May 2020
Gnomon Chronicles is a work of fiction and nonfiction by Karl Jones.
Be aware that Minneapolis riots umbrella man (nonfiction) is real.
He is a masked operative of unknown identity and motive who carefully committed a planned act of property damage during a riot, with at least one accomplice.
I have a documentary mind. I document, I chronicle. I do it compulsively every day, always have, it makes me happy. That's why I have a wiki.
I also write fiction. I do it compulsively every day, always have, it makes me happy. I am a fabulist, I make up little fictions which distort everyday reality ... Alice in Wonderland skits.
The Gnomon Chronicles wiki deliberately confuses fiction and nonfiction — it is a deconstructed historical novel, a collection of definitional fabulisms, a half-finished graphic novel. I conflate nonfiction with fiction: that's how fiction works. Sly mashups of incongruous concepts, Spoonerisms or Swifties disguised as restaurants or technologies, downloadable alien liquor as metaphor for parasitic consumer capitalism, transdimensional drugs with spooky effects ... weird ideas fused onto normal ideas ... science fiction and fantasy. Comic book stuff. Superheroes, time travel. Unforgivable puns. Encyclopunk.
But I have always, from the beginning, rigorously labelled all of the nonfictional page titles (nonfiction), and elsewhere noted "nonfiction", and carefully marked "Fictional cross-references". On the fictional pages, I have similarly rigorously provided nonfictional links.
So no matter how unsure you are whether I am wearing my Apollonian hat or my Dionysian garter belt, the clues are always readily available, the answer is no further than one click away.
Every nonfictional page which has (nonfiction) in the title is a truly nonfictional page written in Wikipedia style. I mimic Wikipedia in most things (apart from choice of subject matter, and personal opinion or research which I mark as such).
So I want to make clear that Minneapolis riots umbrella man (nonfiction) is no fiction, no flight of fantasy. This is real.