-# 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.
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