That is a lot of deletion. The themes have always been love, lack of it, death and its occasional temporary avoidance which we describe as life, the immortality or lack of immortality of the soul, money, honor and politics. That is an oversimplification. But nobody has employed me to write 150,000 words between covers on any of these themes this morning. On Country, Culture, Politics, Etc.
Culture is good to have.
But you have to make your own attack, and remember that no classic resembles another. But you can have plenty fun in it and still know how bad it is. Politics I would rather not be quoted on. All the contact I have had with it has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons. The Senate may develop the picture if they can find a photographer who can photograph a photo-finish.