"The idiosyncrasy of this town is smoke. It rolls sullenly in slow folds from the great chimneys of the iron-foundries,...

The idiosyncrasy of this town is smoke. It rolls sullenly in slow folds from the great chimneys of the iron-foundries,...

To be plausible, the descriptive writer has to constrain the concrete, evocative image to suit the reader’s knowledge and attention span....