(boing!) Cnoocy Mosque O'Witz

I agree that there's no way to know for sure what the author intended, but I still think it's an interesting thing to speculate about, and these speculations factor into the way I think about a text. I guess you could say that what the author says about a text is another text in itself, and that should be approached separately. But I think the slogan "authorial intent doesn't matter" is either misleading, or I'm just still confused.