Into It '' begins with an invocation to the muse from Ovid that reads '' give me the voice \/ To tell the shifting story , '' and though Joseph invokes Wallace Stevens , another lawyer , in his epigraph and elsewhere , the voice that dominates '' Into It '' evokes New York after 9\/11 , recalling the weary , edgy voices of T. S. Eliot 's personae making their way through postwar London .