单项选择题

Whoever said the______life is not worth living apparently never intended to go into book publishing, where there is almost no research and where much of the conventional wisdom is______of folklore, myth and wishful thinking.

A. suffering … a reproach
B. illiterate … a farrago
C. inauspicious … a rejection
D. unassuming … an example
E. unexamined … a pastiche