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“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:

  1. ‘culture’
  2. ‘seemingly’
  3. ‘urgent’
  4. ‘political’
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Seemingly means external appearance as distinguished from true character $-$ means it is not actually what it looks like.

"considering them important only when they were handmaidens (means assisting or helping) to something seemingly more urgent" means it looks like urgent but in real it is not so urgent.

So, ideology is not as important as literature, is revealed by the word "seemingly".

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