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== [[Literature]] ==
* In [[The Bible (Literature)|The Bible]] story of Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot and his family live in a city full of sinners. God allows them to escape while He destroys the city. However, they are told not to turn back. Lot's wife, however, does it anyway, and she is then turned into salt.
* ''[[The Last Unicorn (Literaturenovel)|The Last Unicorn]]'': When running from a freed harpy in Mommy Fortuna's Midnight Carnival, the Unicorn instructs Schmendrick not to run (you should never run from anything immortal, as it attracts their attention) and not to look back as it tears Mommy's thug to shreds.
* [[Big Good|Ardneh's]] last message to [[Warrior Prince|Prince Duncan]] and [[La Résistance|his army]] at the end of ''The Empire of the East'' is not to look back as they retreat, leaving Ardneh to die. This was probably the most practical version of this advice ever given in fiction, in that the reason Ardneh did not want them looking back was that he planned for there to be a [[Deus Ex Nukina|very bright light]] at [[Thanatos Gambit|the moment of his death]], and he didn't want them to hurt their eyes.
 
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