And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human.
So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. (1922–2007) American novelist, journalist

Slaughterhouse-Five, ch. 1 (1969)
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Comparing the tale of Lot's wife with his own retrospective look at WW2 and the firebombing of Dresden.