This may be one of those essays that seem more intelligent than they are because the stiltedness of the non-native Spanish becomes poetic. Still, I liked it.
It begins by talking about the value given to originality and authenticity in art. The idea of authenticity leads to a consideration of origins and originality, says my student, because authentic objects are faithful copies of an original one. That is already interesting, but then we get the sentence I would like to use in a poem:
Las cosas cuando no son auténticas ¿cómo se llaman?
Axé.