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Robbie (James McAvoy) is an Oxford graduate, the son of a maid, and a groundskeeper to the family who employs her. Cecilia (Keira Knightley) is a part of that family, the eldest of two daughters. Her younger sister, Briony, is thirteen, and a budding writer. As the film commences, she's putting on a play she's just completed.

Atonement is ( Read more... )

I want to write poetry like translated French,
With exaggerated phrases like “Such love has never been known.”
Like I was totally un-self-conscious
And saying exactly what I meant.

I want to write poetry that people call comically-earnest,
Like it matters-like it’s subtlety makes the world go ‘round;
Like anyone’s ever won someone else over with ( Read more... )

zomg. So the reason for this journal isn't so much because I plan to write in it (at least not yet), but because I'm tired of being a lurker, and wish to comment without anonymity.

I’ve been in the fandom for about 8/9 years, although I’ve never seriously written anything. I was around when SCUSA was SCUSA, before SCUSA was SCUSA, when the ( Read more... )