The old intention garbage

Daniel uses digging metaphors (as if reading were mining and he was a dwarf
-- I won't speculate on which one).

And he says, with a mysterious apostrophe at the end:

"...according to the school that believes that the author's intent is
irrelevant to a text it is ridiculous for some one in that school of thought to
direct some one else to a text to find out what an author really mean's."

First of all, the "school" (if that means me) believes that the author's
intent is exceeded when the text encounters readers.

Secondly, I direct people to a text to find out what the text says.

And such a suggestion seems way too often to be in order around here.

--John

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