Rewrite this paragraph using the inverted pyramid.

Behold the following text: "Long-dead authors that are still remembered, are remembered because of the quality of their work. And no work can be stiled that of a genius, until other works have come along against which it can be compared. It is always the dead that are praised, or so claim those who are unsuccessful while alive. Perhaps this is so, partly because some people only revere that which has passed. However, works that have withstood the test of time, have withstood its scrutiny." (Free after Samuel Johnson's "Preface to Shakespeare".)