Easy To Kill

 Agatha Christie, in her 1945 murder mystery, Easy To Kill, on Page wrote this conversation between two protagonists, on Page 86: "Rose said ruefully, 'That's the worst part of a place like this. Everybody knows everything about everybody else.'

'Oh, no,' said Luke.

She looked at him inquiringly.

Luke said, with significance, 'No one human being knows the full truth about another human being. Not even one's nearest and dearest.'"

Rose is correct in that in a small, rural village, everyone knows everything superficial about everybody else.

Luke is correct in pointing out that no one human being knows the full truth about another human being, not even one's nearest and dearest.

Christie uses art and literature to point out profound truth in a very few words, in a fun but silly novel written for money, though she likely an accomplished individuator in her own right.

I would amplify Luke's remarks. I would recommend that no one knows  the full truth about everybody else, the good or the ill, their stubborn clinging to nonindividuation or their willing capacity to maverize into great soul status. We don't know all that others are or are capable of. We do not even know that about ourselves.

Through our love of truth, alertness and intuitive guesses about the caliber of another's soul, we could, if attentive and open-minded, come close to grasping where their soul essence. But much of she is or could potentially do or think remains hidden from us.

I am not a solipsist, but we are too a great degree isolated from each other and ourselves, and this silence, unknown status and mystery keep us in the dark about others and ourselves.

We must seek to know ourselves better as individuators, and that allows us to learn more about others as self-knowledge is the key to unlocking much about who others are.

There is much that we do not know and can never know about others or ourselves, so we need to humbly admit our psychic limitations, and live with this disappointing, epistemic reality.