T. S. Eliot - He Do the Police in Different Voices - Today in Literature www.todayinliterature.com/today.asp?Search_Date=12/15/2017 This finishes with the following: James Joyce seems to have had more fun with his shot at The Waste Land. These are the beginning lines of a poem he included in a letter written in 1925, after spending a rainy few days at a Rouen hotel: Rouen is the rainiest place getting Inside all impermeables, wetting Damp marrow in drenched bones. Midwinter soused us coming over Le Mans Our inn at Niort was the Grape of Burgundy But the winepress of the Lord thundered over that grape of Burgundy And we left in a hurgundy. (Hurry up, Joyce, it's time!)....