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Gnomon Chronicles is a work of fiction and nonfiction by Karl Jones (nonfiction).
Be aware that Minneapolis riots umbrella man (nonfiction) is non-fiction. 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. Specifically, little fictions which distort reality ... Alice in Wonderland skits.
The Gnomon Chronicles wiki combines fiction and nonfiction — it is a deconstructed historical novel, a collection of definitional fabulisms, a half-finished graphic novel.
In fact I have gone out of my way to conflate the nonfiction with the fiction, that's rather the point of fiction. Sly mashups of incongruous concepts, Spoonerisms or Swifties disguised as beverages or technologies, downloadable foodstuffs as metaphors for parasitic consumer capitalism, weird ideas fused onto normal ideas ... science fiction and fantasy. Comic book stuff. Superheroes, time travel. Unforgivable puns.
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 my choice of subject matter, and sometimes personal opinion 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.