单选题 Which of the following situations is most closely analogous to the situation described by the author as a tremendous irony?

• (A) That of restaurant customers whose food has not arrived because the manager forgot to oversee its preparation.
• (B) That of a highway maintenance crew who cannot reach a pothole they must fix because the highway is congested with traffic from the pothole.
• (C) That of a man who saves his excess income in a bank account, only to find out the bank has charged fees so high that he has less money than when he began.
• (D) That of an unknown artist who dies just weeks before being recognized in an exhibition.
• (E) That of scientists trying to find a means of traveling at the speed of light, but find that their innovations can only asymptotically approach the speed, but never reach it.