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In After Dark by Wilkie Collins the wife of a travelling portrait painter who has severe visual impairment is encouraging him to tell her stories which she will write down into a book they can sell to provide some income for them.
'Who is to do the eloquent descriptions and the striking reflections, and all that part of it?' said William, perplexedly shaking his head.
'Nobody! I replied. The eloquent descriptions and the striking reflections are just the parts of a storybook that people never read. Whatever we do, let us not, if we can possibly help it, write so much as a single sentence that can be conveniently skipped.'
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