【单选题】

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