A machine capable of, at the same time, stimulating the analytical activity and refusing the resulting process of meaning attribution. This is how the book The Errant Referent understands the procedure of what is often considered to be the most important poem of 20 explanatory notes to the verses of the 1922 poem, the book presents an unlikely thesis if read against the already crystallized image of the author in literature manuals: instead of "conservative", "classicist", "orthodox," etc., Eliot becomes here an unnameable poet, and a difficult one to locate; his notes, far from explaining the verses of the poem, merely show the precariousness of the interpretative gestures and the unshakeable concreteness of the work – The Waste Land, by T. S. Eliot.