read between the limes

The easiest way to have something misunderstood when you're writing is getting it read in a different way than you intended. For example, when the writer tries to get across ideas that lay in the deep of his heart, but the reader tries to interpret the text rationally, the message delivered by the first gets lost somewhere on the way to the former.

What I've found works in preventing this type of things is reading with an open mind. I've re-read letters that I received 6 or 7 years ago and finally got the message the writer had intended for me. It was quite a shock and changed some of the premises I had been working on for many years, but like a message in a bottle finally reaching its long lost destination, the writer had his message delivered... and understood.

We should read between the limes, and between the oranges when it becomes necessary.