Don't Look Back

[sdi]

Now Kalliope bore to Œagros [... a] son, Orpheus, who practiced minstrelsy and by his songs moved stones and trees. And when his wife Eurydike died, bitten by a snake, he went down to Hades, being fain to bring her up, and he persuaded Pluto to send her up. The god promised to do so, if on the way Orpheus would not turn round until he should be come to his own house; but he disobeyed and turning round beheld his wife, so she turned back.

(Pseudo-Apollodorus, Library I iii.)

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I imagine the initiated don't need my advice and the uninitiated wouldn't listen anyway, but just in case, in light of recent events and likely future ones, I would like to remind those on the way up to follow Pluto's advice.