I think the genre decides for me—which sounds like a way of avoiding the question unless I explain first that this chameleon-like border crossing, this shifting of genre identities is, I realize, parallel to, or anticipates, or recollects my own life. I’m probably fluctuating across genres perhaps because my identity itself is always in flux…

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "I think the genre decides for me—which sounds like a way of avoiding the question unless I explain first that this chameleon-like border crossing, this shifting of genre identities is, I realize, parallel to, or anticipates, or recollects my own life. I’m probably fluctuating across genres perhaps because my identity itself is always in flux…" in the context of "On his decision of what genre to write in in “Interview with Ariel Dorfman” (Dalkey Archive Press)" to mean that wisdom is timeless.