A 1922 poem by T. S. Eliot, widely regarded as the most important work of 20th-century English-language poetry, composed of fragments from multiple languages, traditions, and voices without stable narrative.
Established the collage of voices, times, and languages as a poetic form — the model for non-linear, multi-perspective narrative that Nolan would translate into film structure.
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