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Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. i'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. i know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (waterloo music in austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.
-Charles De Lint
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Labels Don't Mean Much To Me One

Charles De Lint
Labels don't mean much to me one way or another -- except when they close the minds of potential readers. i'd much rather we do away with genres and simply file everything under fiction. i know it can work -- one of my favourite record stores (waterloo music in austin) simply files everything alphabetically and no one seems to have much problem finding what they're looking for.
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I'm now much more excited about genre distinctions. what i still see breaking down are more the hierarchical arrangements of genres. that is, "there is literary fiction, and then there are lesser genres." i'm much more clear on the idea that literary fiction is itself a genre. it is not above other genres. it is down there in the muck with all the other genres, and it's doing the wonderful things that it does, but to give it a y-axis, to make it high and low, just seems absurd. i stand by that.
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