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Genres are less like pigeon-holes than like pigeons. Constantly moving, endlessly diverse, and always multiplying.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\u2013Ken Brown on Facebook paraphrasing Carol Newsome\u2019s quote from Alistair Fowler<\/p>\n

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