Eliot liked the music halls, but most critics have thought he made up the lines as parody. Eliot met his first wife at a dance, and the lines in this section are said to refer to her. In the manuscript she wrote "Marvelous" beside them.
But
O O O O that Shakespeherian Rag—
It’s so elegant
So intelligent
“What shall I do now? What shall I do?”
“I shall rush out as I am, and walk the street
“With my hair down, so. What shall we do tomorrow?
“What shall we ever do?”
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