Feminist critics’’have often pondered whether a postmodern language may be articulated that obviates the essentialist arrogance of much modernist and some feminist discourse and does not reduce feminism to silences or a purely negative and reactionary stance. This ideal may be actualized in a discourse that recognizes itself as historically situated, ’’ as motivated by values and, thus, political interests, and as a human practice without transcendent justification. The author Dorothy Allison meets these criteria by focusing on women who have been marginalized by totalizing forces and ideas, while simultaneously reminding the reader, through the wide range of women that she portrays and their culpability in her protagonists’’ predicaments, that unlike pure and transcendent heroes, women are real characters and morally complex. Allison insists that humans are burdened with the responsibility of fashioning their own stories, quotidian as they may be, and .while these will never offer the solace of transcendent justification, the constant negotiation between the word and the world avoids reticence on the one hand and the purely negative on the other. Which of the following would be most analogous to the process of dampening oscillations described in the paragraph
A．During a rainstorm, water rises to the level of a sewer drain, siphoning off and thus remaining at constant level. B．A rubber ball which bounces off the ground multiple times, than gradually comes to rest. C．A meteor hurtles through space indefinitely, due to the laws of inertia. D．A clothing iron is left on, then becomes so hot that it catches on fire, burning its own cord and destroying its power source. E．A baseball pitcher knows he tends to through to the left of home plate, and then in trying to throw to the right, overcorrects.