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It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.

Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.2616, Delphi Classics
It is part of the novelist's convention not to mention soup and salmon and ducklings, as if soup and salmon and ducklings were of no importance.