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