Top 5 Tuesday: Literary Works on Lust and Destruction

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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!”

images3.) Lolita by  Vladimir Nabokov

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

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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.”

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5.) Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy

“They’ve got no idea what happiness is, they don’t know that without this love there is no happiness or unhappiness for us–there is no life.”

Our L.A. Event Picks: Week of 7/1

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July 4 from 2pm-5pm: $12

Lost & Found Film Club, a monthly showcase of ephemeral, industrial, and educational 16mm films, salutes some of the things  that make this country great: Burgers? Check. Sparklers? Check. Amber waves of film grain from sea to shining sea? Double check.

http://www.cinefamily.org/films/lost-and-found-film-club#lost-found-film-club-july-4th-2013

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May – Sept @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The exhibition Hans Richter: Encounters examines the  career of painter, filmaker, and writer, Hans Richter, as both an innovator and a collaborator for the first time.

http://www.lacma.org/art/exhibition/hans-richter-encounters

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7/5-7/6 at 8pm: $12-$150

Looney Tunes projected on a giant  screen, with their exhilarating scores played live by the Los Angeles Philharmonic.

http://www.hollywoodbowl.com/tickets/warner-bros-presents-bugs-bunny-symphony-ii/2013-07-05