Comments on: The End of History http://www.dystel.com/2013/01/the-end-of-history/ Wed, 22 May 2013 01:21:36 -0400 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4 By: bathmate http://www.dystel.com/2013/01/the-end-of-history/comment-page-1/#comment-35578 bathmate Thu, 17 Jan 2013 12:54:11 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=8394#comment-35578 Hello, I desire to subscribe for this web site to obtain hottest updates, thus where can i do it please help out. Hello, I desire to subscribe for this web site to obtain hottest updates, thus where can i do it please help out.

]]> By: D. C. DaCosta http://www.dystel.com/2013/01/the-end-of-history/comment-page-1/#comment-35573 D. C. DaCosta Fri, 11 Jan 2013 00:51:27 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=8394#comment-35573 I hope that this discussion is brought to the attention of everyone who works with teens. Too many (most?) young folks cannot grasp the reality that "it won't always be like this". If they could, they'd have more hope. Am I the same person as I was at 20? No, but I didn't realize it until my spouse was dying. Looking at how much I'd have to handle alone, I realized that I was perfectly capable of doing so...but would not have been, twenty years earlier. Likewise, as a newly "single" person, I had to figure out who I was NOW. Certainly I couldn't go back to the "me" that I was before I was part of "us". Self-examination of this sort is an important part of growth. Maybe it should replace the traditional New Year's Resolutions. That said, I still don't think I'll ever develop into a fan of vampire romance. I hope that this discussion is brought to the attention of everyone who works with teens. Too many (most?) young folks cannot grasp the reality that “it won’t always be like this”. If they could, they’d have more hope.

Am I the same person as I was at 20? No, but I didn’t realize it until my spouse was dying. Looking at how much I’d have to handle alone, I realized that I was perfectly capable of doing so…but would not have been, twenty years earlier. Likewise, as a newly “single” person, I had to figure out who I was NOW. Certainly I couldn’t go back to the “me” that I was before I was part of “us”.

Self-examination of this sort is an important part of growth. Maybe it should replace the traditional New Year’s Resolutions.

That said, I still don’t think I’ll ever develop into a fan of vampire romance.

]]> By: Kevin A. Lewis http://www.dystel.com/2013/01/the-end-of-history/comment-page-1/#comment-35571 Kevin A. Lewis Thu, 10 Jan 2013 20:09:20 +0000 http://www.dystel.com/?p=8394#comment-35571 Quite so that "the more things change, the more they stay the same", and the really interesting part of this (and the least predictable) is what's going to stand the test of time and the way people's reasons for a certain book or piece of music morph along with the years. Charles Dickens, for instnace is still wildly popular and rightly so, although a good deal of the appeal nowadays is the quaint setting and general Victorian atmosphere-back in the day they were the equivalent of the latest Oprah selection and were probably despised by proper young ladies who'd rather read about some intrepid heroine in a gloomy gothic castle; exactly the kind of escapism that drives a lot of Dickens' sales now. Salem's Lot by Stephen King is another classic I think people will read a hundred years from now, as much for the pre-internet 70's setting it so vividly depicts as the horror involoved. Do I think anything I write (or any of the rest of the current YA genre) will survive the test of time? Not a bit of it. But all we're doing is selling ice cream on a pleasant summer day-not the sort of pleasure one stores in a wine cellar for future generations, although hopefully somebody half a century down the road will savor the taste again in their memories. Carpe Diem and all that, what? Quite so that “the more things change, the more they stay the same”, and the really interesting part of this (and the least predictable) is what’s going to stand the test of time and the way people’s reasons for a certain book or piece of music morph along with the years. Charles Dickens, for instnace is still wildly popular and rightly so, although a good deal of the appeal nowadays is the quaint setting and general Victorian atmosphere-back in the day they were the equivalent of the latest Oprah selection and were probably despised by proper young ladies who’d rather read about some intrepid heroine in a gloomy gothic castle; exactly the kind of escapism that drives a lot of Dickens’ sales now. Salem’s Lot by Stephen King is another classic I think people will read a hundred years from now, as much for the pre-internet 70′s setting it so vividly depicts as the horror involoved. Do I think anything I write (or any of the rest of the current YA genre) will survive the test of time? Not a bit of it. But all we’re doing is selling ice cream on a pleasant summer day-not the sort of pleasure one stores in a wine cellar for future generations, although hopefully somebody half a century down the road will savor the taste again in their memories. Carpe Diem and all that, what?

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