1.
The original title of The Waste Land was He Do the Police in Different Voices:
2.
The epigraph was originally going to be a quote from Heart of Darkness:
3.
The Petronius epigraph is totally out of context from the rest of The Satyricon:
4.
The famous line "I will show you fear in a handful of dust" also refers to the Sibyl:
5.
The "Game of Chess" section has a missing line:
6.
There's actually a precedent for nightingales' saying "Jug Jug":
7.
Footsteps shuffling on the stair in Eliot's poems often signal a sexual liaison:
8.
The notes at the end of the poem are (probably) an elaborate joke.
9.
"April is the cruelest month" is an allusion to Chaucer: