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PETRU RUSSU
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By imitating the idea, the author even debases the ape, he kills the idea in of himself or his tragic simian performance. What allows us to differentiate
order to give life to an image, but the image is a mirror, a mere aberration of the the ‘vulgar’ from ‘art’? What do we mean by vulgar? Is nature vulgar?
idea. The ape is the ‘mirror-aberration’ of the author. It is the author himself Never. What about Man? Man is often, perhaps always, vulgar. Art is therefore
who is incapable of attaining any other knowledge, or rather the knowledge the highest level of vulgarity, ergo what is vulgar is art. It is the same thing.
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