All Intensive Purposes

Jay Rubin again, from page 276 of his Appendix A ("Translating Murakami") to Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words:

The more you look into it and into the question of revision, the more you realize there is no single authoritative version of any Murakami work: he reserves the right to tinker with everything long after it has found its way into print. I once heard that Willem de Kooning would occasionally follow a painting of his to the gallery and revise it on the wall.

As a truly alert reader might have noticed, I often continue to revise posts here after publishing them.