During the desert sequence, as Drake becomes lost, Rosalind Ayres (voice of Marlowe) can be heard reading a passage from T.S. Eliot's modernist poem, "The Waste Land." The second stanza begins with "Only there is shadow under this red rock," as Drake makes his way under a red rock. 

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Uncharted 3 actually follows the poems storyline directly with references to "Burning Buildings" - The French Chateaux which Talbot sets on fire and the obvious reference to wandering through the desert.