Vim as prose editor - how to remove '~' and '@'

I am trying out gvim and vim for use as a prose editor for writing - rather
than programmer coding.

Whilst doing pgup and pgdn one gets ~ and @ on the screen and I was wondering
if it was possible to remove them.

thanks
james

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