{"text":"Before cruelly vilifying them from a great height, the mudslingers at newspapers and journals should bear in mind that all artistic endeavors were by and large a mixture of effort and imagination, the embodiment of a solitary endeavor, of a sometimes long-nurtured dream, when they were not a desperate bid to give life meaning.","author":"Félix J. Palma","tags":["critics","writers-on-writing"],"id":8578,"author_id":"F%C3%A9lix+J.+Palma"}