Sometimes the reader will decide something else than the author's intent; this is certainly true of attempts to empirically decipher reality.
“God, I hate interviews with actors pouncing on. Who wants to know about their lives? I don't want to know about Al Pacino's life.”
“Farewell all relations and friends in Christ; farewell acquaintances and all earthly enjoyments; farewell reading and preaching, praying and believing, wanderings, reproaches, and sufferings.”