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I think this is a brilliant point from Scott.
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David McGorman

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Nov 8, 2017·1 min read

That Quint speech is perhaps the single best example of exposition that fundamentally WORKS. It reverses the adage: Show it, don’t say it. But it’s completely gripping. I teach a one-week online class called Handling Exposition and we dig into that monologue as to why it works.

Thanks for posting that, David. Watched it again… for the zillionth time.

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