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The style of ''Fiction'' is satire and lampoon, where details become extreme, great force become trivial, beauty turns grotesque while ugliness demands a laugh, time and space become opposite and contradictory, and every action provokes unexpected consequences. | |||
Sections of text marked "(nonfiction)" are nonfiction, and can be trusted as nonfiction. | |||
All other sections are my fictions, where I assert fictional facts, often interlaced with nonfictional links. | |||
This is a work in progress; expect updates. | |||
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Revision as of 16:37, 28 December 2016
Fiction is an ongoing work of fiction and nonfiction by Karl Jones.
On This Day in History
1717: Mathematician, physicist, and philosopher Jean le Rond d'Alembert born. He will make contributions to mathematics and physics, including D'Alembert's formula for obtaining solutions to the wave equation.
1724: Thief Jack Sheppard hanged. He was arrested and imprisoned five times in 1724 but escaped four times from prison, making him a notorious public figure, and wildly popular with the poorer classes.
1904: English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube).
1917: Mathematician Derek Taunt born. He will work as a codebreaker at Bletchley Park during World War II.
1940: New York City "Mad Bomber" George P. Metesky places his first bomb, at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
Description:
The style of Fiction is satire and lampoon, where details become extreme, great force become trivial, beauty turns grotesque while ugliness demands a laugh, time and space become opposite and contradictory, and every action provokes unexpected consequences.
Sections of text marked "(nonfiction)" are nonfiction, and can be trusted as nonfiction.
All other sections are my fictions, where I assert fictional facts, often interlaced with nonfictional links.
This is a work in progress; expect updates.
See also: