authorial intention

is, in art, such that nothing is more secondary.

. . . in art nothing is more secondary than the author's intentions. Jorge Luis Borges, Selected Non-Fictions

is unknowable, in that we cannot control our scribblings, which amount to the script of one's personality like one's voice or one's walk.

Though people may read more into Ulysses than I ever intended, who is to say that they are wrong: do any of us know what we are creating'Which of us can control our scribblings' They are the script of one's personality like your voice or your walk. James Joyce

authorial intention, n.All

authorial intention