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But we'll let it pass this once, for the virtues subscribed to by Briony are a perfect fit for McEwan's: if it's plot, suspense and a Bergsonian sensitivity to the intricacies of individual consciousnesses you want, then McEwan is your man and "Atonement" your novel.
It's plot we want and plenty of it.
If there's any component of fiction we think of as unfortunate, it's plot — that "low atavistic form," as E.M. Forster referred to it in "Aspects of the Novel".
It's plot heavy, full of lionhearted female characters with broadly drawn and easily graspable personality traits, and it's focused on the morally unassailable theme of the redemptive power of love; it's a chick flick for the stage.
When Diana Rigg, in "The Great Muppet Caper," gives an unprompted character description of her wayward brother, Miss Piggy asks, "Why are you telling me all this?" Her reply: "It's plot exposition; it has to go somewhere".
It's plot of two people who fall in love through the anonymity of personal ads while despising each other in their day-to-day lives was adapted from an old play and later again for the movie "You've Got Mail".
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From here on it is plot hopscotch.
"It was all the characters, it was dialogue, it was sets, it was plot, it was story line -- everything, it was all there".
Pakistan's military has dismissed the idea that it was plotting to take power.
It is plotted with unusual precision.
On a map drawn in 1962, it was plotted 860 feet from here.
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