MDMD(8) Opening Comments - Lud

[Steven Maas (CUTR)]

Chris K.'s Opening Comments are extremely interesting, thoughtful, and
on-target, in my opinion.  I did want to comment on one of her
observations. 

[snip]
> False diviners, like Lud Oafery in this section, abound.  (As his name
> implies, Oafery is a dullard changeling.  He believes that Dixon is
> journeying to America in exile, as an alternative to being hanged for
> theft.
[snip]

While Lud does make mistaken assumptions about Dixon's trip to America,
and thinks the earth is as flat as a ketjap, anchovy, and Stilton pizza,
I'm not so sure he's a dullard or a false diviner.  He seems to have had
some interesting insights; e.g., Dixon remembers that Lud predicted that
Dixon would find his Destiny upon the Surface while Lud's would lie "[a]
bit further down" (as if he's a messenger from the same realm as Rebekah).
And Business "down there" is "brisk as ever it gets upon thy Surface."
Also, Lud is source of a wealth of information about the Tunnels.

	Steve Maas