Looking Back

If you look back, it is never a good thing; Orpheus did it, unable any longer to withstand the gloom of the underworld on his own, and he lost his wife Eurydice forever. Lot's wife, whose name we do not know, turned back to look upon the destruction of Sodom and Gomorrah, and was turned into a pillar of salt. And who knows what happens to pillars of salt who turn back? Perhaps they become sea water, and their identity is lost forever.