[Michael F]

It’s the magic of ‘and’, isn’t it? Not ‘either/or’, but ‘both/and’.

Yes, I belong to XYZ groups, and I am uncategoried, unique and irreducible, maybe undefinable. And that’s a characteristic I share (O paradox!) with every other human being on Earth.

To your point, Sam: as I read e.g., The Upanishads and the Tao Te Ching, I understand a denial that the logic of binary opposites cuts to the 'really real'. Yes, there are some Western thinkers and poets who also have this feel to me. Just keeping to poets: Rilke, Blake (in part), and of course Walt, whose “Song of Myself” is full of vanishing distinctions.

Showing the best and dividing it from the worst age vexes age,
Knowing the perfect fitness and equanimity of things, while they
discuss I am silent, and go bathe and admire myself.