Eliot's Notes to "The Waste Land" // 2.115

Lines 115-116:

I think we are in rat's alley
Where the dead men lost their bones.

Eliot's Note:

115. Cf. Part III, l. 195

Referenced lines:

l. 193-195
White bodies naked on the low damp ground
And bones cast in a little low garret,
Rattled by the rat's foot only, year to year.

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