Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
“A people's literature is the great textbook for real knowledge of them. The writings of the day show the quality of the people as no historical reconstruction can.”
“Some guys say beauty is only skin deep. But when you walk into a party, you don't see somebody's brain. The initial contact has to be the sniffing.”