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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. I need, emotional and physically need, to express the Jonathan-Swift-meets-Edward-Lear nonsense that comes into my head. If I don't, I get itchy troubled feelings which make happiness difficult.
The Gnomon Chronicles wiki deliberately confuses nonfiction and fiction. It is a deconstructed historical novel, a collection of definitional fabulisms, a half-finished graphic novel. I take great care and pride in my conflation of truth and lies (that's how fiction works, right?) ... sly mashups of incongruous ideas, Spoonerisms or Swifties disguised as restaurants or technologies, downloadable alien liquor as metaphor for parasitic consumer capitalism, transdimensional drugs with spooky actions at a distance ... weird ideas fused onto normal ideas fighting normal ideas infused with weird 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 nearby, 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.
Be assured — I will never write fictions about Minneapolis riots umbrella man (nonfiction), never tell jokes or post caricatures. This is citizen journalism, not Alice in Wonderland.