bad fortune

“There’s nothing more eventual than bad fortune, Little Monkey. A little salt gets sprinkled over the rocks around a well and camels won’t stop licking it. They push each other to get at the salt, and they finally topple all the rocks into the well. They’re so thirsty, they won’t help pull the rocks out, and the well crumbles into itself. Just like that, a whole outpost goes under.”

British monarchs have shown amazing resilience to scandal and bad fortune over the centuries.

Their lives unravel even more after a young girl curses them with bad fortune.

To celebrate the gallery’s two-year anniversary and this good/bad fortune, Franciose has curated a group show called “Snake Eyes,” a reference to the bad luck of throwing two ones with a pair of dice.

Except this paper reported on Andrew the tamale man’s bad fortune 130 years ago.