demotic french

Unreal City
Under the brown fog of a winter noon

"Eugenides" means "well bred", but this is belied by his actions: a
blatant homosexual invitation at the Cannon Street Hotel (in the City,
a terminus to the Continent), followed by a dirty weekend in Brighton,
the Metropole then a fashionable hotel. Eliot had originally written:
"And perhaps a weekend at the Metropole", implying that the invitation
forms the poet's unspoken thoughts as to what might follow the
luncheon; Pound wrote "dam per'apsez" in the margin of the manuscript,
and underlined the offending word.

- T S Eliot: 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock' and 'The Waste
Land', by C. J. Ackerley