“We lived in a culture that denied any merit to literary works, considering them important only when they were handmaidens to something seemingly more urgent – namely ideology. This was a country where all gestures, even the most private, were interpreted in political terms.”The author’s belief that ideology is not as important as literature is revealed by the word:

• A. ‘Culture’
• B. ‘Seemingly’
• C. ‘Urgent’
• D. ‘Political’