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Originally Posted by jbjb
Indeed, and that's fine so long as you're finding meanings that the author actually intended to convey. The way it currently seems to work, however, is that far too much is read into it, and deeper meanings are pronounced where there's no real indication that the author had the remotest intention of implying any of it.
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Once a text is released into the world, it doesn't much matter anymore what the author intended--the work stands apart from its creator, and can be subject to different interpretations.