Nothing is Written

General Murray: I can’t make out whether you’re bloody bad-mannered or just half-witted.

T.E. Lawrence: I have the same problem, sir.

-Lawrence of Arabia

Nothing can be known, ultimately. The truth is the unknown. Life is unknown, it is a mystery. But this does not sit well with the mind. The mind works in facts, in values, in definitions — discriminations between this and that. As discussed, our brain (well, some regions of the brain) work off of and are perpetuated by this concept of separation, of trying to figure out, work out some final…