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Arman19940326 Posted 12 years ago
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"Maybe at 500 words the confinement begins to create a new form,often very interesting,but more of an intellectual exercise ;literary showing off rather than a natural giving of truth..."

What does it mean by the last sentence?
What is the meaning of "showing off" here?
  

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The original answer explains it well:: With only 500 words to express something, the constraints start to produce a new form which is like an intellectual exercise, interesting but in the end a form of exhibitionism rather than natural self-expression.

— AlpheccaStars

  • The original answer explains it well:: With only 500 words to express something, the constraints start to produce a new form which is like an intellectual exercise, interesting but in the end a form of exhibitionism rather than natural self-expression.
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The original answer explains it well::

With only 500 words to express something, the constraints start to produce a new form which is like an intellectual exercise, interesting but in the end a form of exhibitionism rather than natural self-expression.
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One thing I like to say is my questions today were from our learning book in college "Active 4" by "Neil J Anderson" and I wrote the sentences in quotations exactly as they are in the book.
AlpheccaStars! I will appreciate if you explain your answers a bit easier cause it's sometimes hard for me to figure out your answers.By the way thank you very much for your time and attentions.

Al
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Here is the original:

maybe at 500 words, the sheer confinement begins to create a new beast, often very interesting, but "cute" and an intellectual exercise, literary showing off rather than a natural giving of truth.
When a writer has only 500 words for a composition, he has to write extremely carefully. He cannot waste any words.
So it requires a lot of th
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Thanks.Now I have an outline of the text.
It's "Literary" not "Literally" though.
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arman19940326It's "Literary" not "Literally" though.
Literally made more sense to me, but I found the original quote, and stand corrected.
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