The Importance of Learning About the Author's Intent

I think it matters whether learning about the author's intent is going to be more fruitful in terms of your appreciation and understanding of the text, or if it's not. And so... Yeah. Me saying that makes me think, I think there's something that the real thing that we're after is a fruitful interpretation that allows us to appreciate the text in more depth. Often, maybe, certainly, sometimes the author'sintent is a big part of that. But sometimes it isn't. Sometimes we have no sense of the author's intended. It might even actually detract from a more fruitful interpretation of the text to know that. Then he would be like, it was poorly executed, right?