Lit Mash: Her Sexual Awakening

She was stretched on her back beneath the pear tree soaking in the alto chant of the visiting bees, the gold of the sun, and the panting breath of the breeze when the inaudible voice of it all came to her. She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace, and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage! She had been summoned to behold a revelation. Then Janie felt a pain remorseless sweet that left her limp and languid.

Zora Neale Hurston Their Eyes Were Watching God

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Deathless Spin

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” Soren Kierkegaard

Artwork by Adam Minorczyk

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Hands Across the World

He’s got the whole world

in his hands

Artwork: “The Revolution Has Started” by Hugo Barros

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The Basics

“In art as in love, instinct is enough.” Anatole France

Artwork by Alex Eckman-Lawn

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Only You Will Do

“I have little left in myself — I must have you. The world may laugh — may call me absurd, selfish — but it does not signify. My very soul demands you: it will be satisfied, or it will take deadly vengeance on its frame.”

-Charlotte Bronte

Artwork by Corrinne

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Shall We Dance

“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you managed to survive. You won’t even be sure, whether the storm is really over. But one thing is certain. When you come out of the storm, you won’t be the same person who walked in. That’s what this storm’s all about.”

by Haruki Murakami

Artwork by Ruby Tingle

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Top 5 Tuesday: Literary Works on Lust and Destruction

1.) Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare

“Love is heavy and light, bright and dark, hot and cold, sick and healthy, asleep and awake- its everything except what it is”

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2.) Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte

“Be with me always – take any form – drive me mad! Only do not leave me in this abyss, where I cannot find you! Oh, God! it is unutterable! I can not live without my life! I can not live without my soul!”

images 3.) Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

“Lolita, light of my life, fire of my loins. My sin, my soul.”

4.) Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates

“The hell with this aching, suffering, callow, half-assed delusion that he was in “love” with her. The hell with “love” anyway, and with every other phony, time-wasting, half-assed emotion in the world.”