The following question has a paragraph from which the last sentence has been deleted. From the given options, choose the one that completes the paragraph in the most appropriate way. Bertolt Brecht has a famous poem from 1933, “Germany, pale mother” (Fassbinder later used the words as the title for a film). The poem has an epigraph: “Let others talk about their shame, I will talk about mine.” Grass has done the opposite: he has carefully incubated his particular shame for 60 years, all the while encouraging others to talk about theirs. _________________________ a. “Now I remember, now I forget”, was his motto. b. These lifelong silences, and the manner of his breaking it, have hurt Grass’s reputation in ways from which it will never recover. c. Now, possibly threatened by its imminent disclosure - the relevant documents have surfaced lately in Grass’s Stasi file. d. It transpires that the 17-year-old Grass - who had never previously admitted to being anything worse than a “Flakhelfer”, was a conscripted civilian ack-ack gunner. e. Michael Hofmann is dismayed by the tone and content of Günter Grass’s self-revelation in “Peeling the Onion.” Interested in CLs products, to know more check here: bit.ly/eProduct_Center
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