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The Book of Emotions General and considered one of theIn a future Brazil, a blind photographer considers a sequence of his old photographs . . . [continued] A blind photographer envisions "a haiku stripped of rhetoric that captures only what is in front of the camera." But without camera or lens, his instruments of optic prosody, he must reconstruct experience as a series of affective snapshots. The result, then, is not the description of a remembered image, but of the emotional memory the image evokes.