Selected Footnotes from Eliot’s “The Waste Land”
5. Park in Munich
6. German: “I’m not Russian at all. I come from Lithuania, pure German.”
13. Tarot cards, used to tell fortunes (E.I,46).
26. Conventional Elizabethan rendering of the nightingale’s song.
30. I.e., to cause an abortion.
31. In England: “pharmacist.”
32. Bacon.
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