Genre #2

Genre says, don't identify, don't mingle in that confusion of
identifying with each and every character. Instead, play Mini Golf,
where each tee is circumscribed and includes a satisfying gimmick to
reward you. Or say, a scheme of this ball knocks mechanistically into
that ball and wow, we RECOGNIZE the result and are rewarded for our
judgment, or maybe a little titillated by the surprise of having not
guessed exactly. Genre is the exponent of manipulation as the M.O. of
the world. That statement of Hart Crane that I keep returning to:
"There is the world dimensional/ For those untwisted by the/ Love of
things irreconcilable." This is a quote inscrutable to the lover of
genre.