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Latest post Fri, Nov 6 2009 10:49 PM by Avangi. 2 replies.
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Anonymous  +  963251 Fri, 06 Nov 09 09:27 AM
Hello, can someone explain to me the last sentence below? What does writ mean here?

 

But soon you notice the concentric lines of giant fingerprints and the tip of a finger or two. You knew it was enlarged, but from something just a few centimeters high? It is the artist’s touch writ very, very large. 

barbarajohnson  +  963319 Fri, 06 Nov 09 11:19 AM
Well i think that here the word "WRIT" means the documentary or the literature which was written by the author, it states the meaning that whatever the author has written is very very large.


Well i got some help from an english training course that provides live support, but as they already have taught me so much so they ask me to find the answer myself and i got this answer, i hope that this is fine.Well you can also get online help from


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Avangi  +  963792 Fri, 06 Nov 09 10:49 PM
"Writ large" is poetic.  I'd say "writ" is an archaic version of the past participle, "written."


Your excerpt sounds like a clever mixing of reality and metaphor.


"The artist's touch" = a fingerprint??

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