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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.
Umbrella Man is a masked operative of unknown identity and motive who carefully committed a planned act of property damage during a riot. He wear a full-face gas mask, and carries a black umbrella which he uses to conceal his face.
A video of the AutoZone windows attack shows the event clearly. Umbrella Man breaks a series of windows in a crisp, efficient attack. There are shouts of "Are you a cop?" Umbrella man then swiftly leaves.
Umbrella Man works with an accomplice ("Pizza Dude", "Pink Shirt Dude"). In the attack video, Pizza Dude appears to confront Umbrella Man. But in another video, Umbrella Man and Pizza Dude walk side-by-side, looking very much like a team, a pair.
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.
I launched the Gnomon Chronicles wiki as a medium where I deliberately confuse nonfiction with 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 disguised as restaurants or technologies, flying bison, flying lunch cars, 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).
I know this is a peculiar place to document citizen detective-journalism, so I want to make clear that Minneapolis riots umbrella man (nonfiction) is no fiction, no flight of fantasy. This is real.
Anyway, who better than me? I know all about untangling fact from fiction. I am the Disambiguator. It's my thing.
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.