'Authorial Intent'?

And the fallacy, Anna? (real quetion)

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Derrida once came to the New School to give a guest seminar as part of his evaluation for a position there. A student asked him a question about one of the articles with which 'all' grad students are familiar but which M. Derrida couldn't remember clearly (as I cannot at all). Instead of answering the question, Derrida denied ever having said whatever it was that was being attributed to him. Whereupon, one of the professors put the text in front of him and showed him the line...Derrida read for a moment, looked up, and said, charmingly, "Obviously, I didn't mean that."

Needless to say, he got the job.