Tom Petty

tapescript5-p20 WOMAN: You may think that heroic fantasy is very much a presentday genre, but its origins go back quite a long way. That’s according to Lev Grossman, the book critic for Time magazine who also broadcasts on national radio in the United States. Tom, you’ve just come back from New York and I believe you heard Lev Grossman recommending something rather unexpected. MAN: Yes, quite recently he chose to recommend that his listeners should read the quartet of novels The Once and Future King by T. H

success-oriented society long for/yearn for a higher standard of living a melting pot multiculturalism the land of opportunities the inner cities illegal immigration a wetback an undocumented worker prejudices be prejudiced against blame sb for petty criminals be unemployed s’installer, s’établir manquer regretter ex: I miss you = Vous me manquez. le dépaysement les coutumes respectueux une société valorisant la réussite désirer/aspirer à un plus haut niveau de vie un creuset le multiculturalisme

nothingness. 30 Reluctant guests The generous liver may object to the author's small estimate of the pleasures of the table. The sinner sees, in the system taught in this book, that the demands of PAGE 130 1 3 6 God must be met. The petty intellect is alarmed by constant appeals to Mind. The licentious disposition is discouraged over its slight spiritual prospects. When all men are bidden to the feast, the excuses come. One has a farm, another has merchandise, and therefore they cannot

how wrong things may go when the Sleeping Beauty is awakened. Cocteau never analysed the forces which direct our inner lives (they seem more Racinian than Freudian), and he preached no message save deference to the will of the gods, scorn for man’s petty concerns and the certainty that only Art is real. Cocteau, the unrepentant middle-class iconoclast, sought to return the theatre to the People to whom it belonged and for whom it provided an illumination, religious in character if not in form, of the