![]() But Lud isn’t a simple New York-it’s got Gasher, the villain who speaks like the convict in Great Expectations, not to mention two warring tribes, the Pubes and the Greys. In Stephen King’s version, Lud is New York: Eddie recognizes the George Washington Bridge, and Blaine’s ‘cradle’ is like an evil Grand Central. ![]() Geoffrey’s History is the chronicle that brings King Arthur to the masses, and we can’t forget that Roland is descended on the sinister side from Arthur of Eld.īut in Geoffrey, Lud becomes London (no, this is not historically or etymologically accurate). A slightly less-obvious in-joke comes in the name of the city through which the ka-tet must quest: Lud, first mentioned, as far as I know, in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain (c. ![]() ![]() “I will show you something different from either/ Your shadow at morning striding behind you/ Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you / I will show you fear in a handful of dust.”īook III of the Dark Tower was called The Waste Lands, in an obvious homage to T.S. ![]()
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