Who wrote the following statement: “When you asked me to speak about women and fiction I sat down on the banks of a river and began to wonder what the words meant” ?

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A. “Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.” B. “Lolita, look at this tangle of thorns.” C. “Lolita, all at once we were madly, clumsily, shamelessly, agonizingly in love with each other.” D. “Lolita, a cluster of stars palely glowed above us.”...

T.S. Eliot considered which of the following one of the greatest short stories ever written ?

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