Another thing that Ann Rand gets wrong in her vampire novels is the implicit message for young people that if you are ambitious and talented a la Roark, then older people will somehow be put off by you.

Now that I am a generation older I can say the opposite is the case.

It is one of the great joys to have friends who are younger who simply don& #39;t have the life data to make certain decisions. All you have to do is give them information and they& #39;re off to the races. The cost/benefit could not be higher.