bad luck quote

Nothing to do with <Someone>'s recent list of missing entries, just
an amusing quote I like.  The book itself isn't remotely nethackish; it's
about a teenage boy and a teddy bear who are operating as hardboiled-style
detectives in a land of sentient toys where nursery rhyme characters start
getting murdered.

dat/data.base

@@ -1,4 +1,4 @@
-#	SCCS Id: @(#)data.base	3.4	2004/06/04
+#	SCCS Id: @(#)data.base	3.4	2004/09/02
 #	Copyright (c) 1994, 1995, 1996 by the NetHack Development Team
 #	Copyright (c) 1994 by Boudewijn Wayers
 #	NetHack may be freely redistributed.  See license for details.
@@ -2348,6 +2348,24 @@ lord surt*
 	and harry, and overcome all the gods, and burn all the
 	world with fire.
 			[ The Prose Edda, by Snorri Sturluson ]
+# if a quote for good luck gets added, make this one exclusively bad luck
+luck
+bad luck
+	"[...]  We'll succeed and you'll get all the fortune you came
+	seeking."
+	Jack shook his head dismally.  "You'll be better off without
+	me," he said.  "I'm nothing but bad luck.  It's because I'm
+	cursed.  A farmer I met on the way to the city cursed me.  He
+	said, 'I curse you Jack.  May you never know wealth.  May all
+	that you wish for be denied you.'"
+	"What a horrid man," said Eddie.  "Why did he curse you like
+	that?"
+	Jack shrugged [...].  "Bad grace, I suppose.  Just because I
+	shot off his ear and made him jump into a pit full of spikes."
+			[ the hollow chocolate bunnies of
+			  the apocalypse, by Robert Rankin ]
+#			[no relation... both cover and title page list
+#			 this book's title in all lower case]
 lug*
 	Lugh, or Lug, was the sun god of the Irish Celts.  One of his
 	weapons was a rod-sling which worshippers sometimes saw in