“If I beg you to set me free, then tie me tighter still.”
Homer, Odyssey 12.163-164
Before the first show starts, you could say
“Let’s agree now: one show. If you say ‘one more!’ later, I’ll help you stop.”
Where this comes from
In Homer’s Odyssey, Odysseus wants to hear the Sirens sing, though no sailor who stops to listen ever makes it home. So he has his crew tie him to the mast and tells them this, in a story first told more than 2,500 years ago: if he begs to be untied, tie him tighter.
Homer, Odyssey 12.163-164. We put these lines into plain English ourselves, staying close to the original and to public-domain translations.
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