The Collating of Texts

Aywi, i wrote that paper, but i dhin, god, such an important notion of what you're talking about. How texts evolve, how authors respond, how they received and then how they absorb. And we have to admit that if what we're doing is a science, rather than if what we's doing is a religion in some fundamental sense, right? Can you further elaborate this issue of the the collating of texts?