The Poet and The Trickster
In order to negate mimesis and demonstrate how life creates art and
not the contrary, Derrida gave the example of a poet who celebrates
a nightingale's song in a poem and a trickster who imitates the nightingale's
song with a reed and asked the reader the rhetorical question:
"Which is more authentic, the poet or the trickster?"
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