"The kind of storytelling people got away with 50 years ago really doesn't work anymore today." Yeah, I've struggled with this a lot -- e.g. still having troub

"The kind of storytelling people got away with 50 years ago really doesn't work anymore today." Yeah, I've struggled with this a lot -- e.g. still having trouble reading the works of Dostoevsky because of those endless walking-in-the-park-and-philosophising dialogues. These seem alien in my time and culture. I suppose you have to sense the characteristics of that 50-year-old language -- and see the universal, timeless ideas behind that language. Language is a tool, a form. It does change quite a bit in 50 (or 100) years, whereas the general ideas change much less IMO. To a large degree, this is a "seeing forest for the trees" thing.