Have you ever been told to “read between the lines”?
Am I the only one that finds this saying bewildering? I mean, there’s nothing between the lines, people. It’s just “between”. You can’t read “between”.
Aren’t there lines because you’re supposed to read what’s in them? If we’re supposed to read between the lines, why don’t we just leave everything “between”, and forget about the actual “lines”? Wouldn’t that make things easier, since everyone seems to be so concerned with the “between” rather than the “lines”?
What about when you’re having a conversation with someone, and they make a comment that you don’t fully understand. You say “What does that mean?”, and they reply with something like “If you don’t know I’m not going to tell you. You need to read between the lines.”
Look, I don’t know a lot of things. In fact, if you took what I don’t know, turned it into musical talent, and gave it to the boy band O-Town, they would be the freakin’ New York Philharmonic by now. To help you avoid reading between the lines of that brilliant metaphor, let me clarify: O-Town isn’t very talented, and they’d need a lot of help to become the New York Philharmonic. Bottom line: there’s a lot I don’t know.
However, one thing I do know is that when we’re talking there are definitely no “lines” nor is there any reading of the “between”. We’re not writing anything down. I can’t read between your UNWRITTEN lines now, can I?
I will now conclude this thought now, as I have confused myself, and probably you as well.
If you don’t get what I’ve written or if anything seemed unclear, then, well…you know what to do…