What I don't like about that discussion is that, as some one else has mentioned it takes part in the huge esense of entitlement that I am beginning to think is the main characteristic of the times. If the author wants to remove their work from the internet it is neither childish nor selfish and it is their right. But no, they can't ask other people to delete it from their harddrives.

On the other hand I feel that once someone has written something and it's been read by anyone at all, the writer can't control the meaning of that writing, not at all. The story isn't even completed anyway until it has an audience, as far as I am concerned. And I don't think it's possible for a reader to interpret a piece of writing in an invalid way. Sure there may be better and worse readings of a piece of writing, but in the end, I think the author is possibly the *worst* judge of whose interpretation is best.

The power of writing is that it's open to interpretation. So hile the author might not like what someone saw in his/her work and might find it completely contrary to his/her intentions, I don't think the writer should even try to hunt people down and change what they think about something. I find that doing so only makes the other person's interpretation seem all the more valid.