No one is an exception to being human. Being human is exceptional.

Exceptionalism Must Go

Nandini Bhattacharya, writer

Jun 13, 2025

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I ‘love” these lines from Paul Celan’s poetry.

Death Fugue

Paul Celan

1920 –

1970

Black milk of morning we drink you evenings
we drink you at noon and mornings we drink you at night
we drink and we drink
A m…

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