The author of the passage believes that writers are ambivalent to recognition because it is A. rarely commensurate to the way in which posterity will regard a writer's work B. only of consequence in the future, yet an author will never know what the future thinks of his or her work C. typically bestowed in the present, whereas a writer is more concerned with approbation from the past and the future D. unfairly meted out to those who possess only a modicum of talent E. mostly unrelated to the quality of a writer's prose