"The dripping plastered houses stand
Like mendicants without regrets
For unpaid debts
Hand in pocket, undecided,
Indifferent if derided."

The lines deserve to stand at the head of Eliot's pre-Conversion poetry up to The Hollow Men. I hope you've enjoyed the ramifications of each phrase.

Cheers,

--- On Thu, 5/27/10, Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

//A funtabulous fusion of hilarity and seriousness, Eliot's lines from 'Fourth Caprice in Montparnasse' deserve to stand at the head of "Prufrock and Other Observations" //

-- an acid comment on what Vincent Sherry calls //"[the] underside of urban modernity"//

--- On Thu, 5/27/10, Chokh Raj <[log in to unmask]" target=_blank rel=nofollow>[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> // "The dripping plastered houses stand
> Like mendicants without regrets
> For unpaid debts
> Hand in pocket, undecided,
> Indifferent if derided." //
>
> -'Fourth Caprice in Montparnasse', IMH