Text, Context, & Subtext: How to Talk About Something Without Talking About it.
Subtext is like a donut hole.
It exists, but only in the context of something else. You don't really write subtext, because that's the stuff people don't say. to put it another way:
1. The stuff that people say is text.
2. The stuff that people mean, is subtext.
Let's say I give you a present for your birthday. All aflutter, you rip open the box and what do you see? A pair of Crocs. "Nice," you say. "I don't have a pair of these. Thanks a lot." But what you mean is, "If I wanted a pair of butt-fu...
It exists, but only in the context of something else. You don't really write subtext, because that's the stuff people don't say. to put it another way:
1. The stuff that people say is text.
2. The stuff that people mean, is subtext.
Let's say I give you a present for your birthday. All aflutter, you rip open the box and what do you see? A pair of Crocs. "Nice," you say. "I don't have a pair of these. Thanks a lot." But what you mean is, "If I wanted a pair of butt-fu...
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