“The unknown,” said Faxe’s soft voice in the forest, “the unforetold, the unproven, that is what life is based on. Ignorance is the ground of thought. Unproof is the ground of action…The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”

“The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.”
I recently started reading Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Left Hand of Darkness (science fiction is now my favorite holiday from current news and events). A moment in the story stood out. Genly Ai i…