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Like a closed book?

But women all seem to understand men perfectly. I once heard a group of women agreeing with one another emphatically, saying: “All men want that!”

Well, the men in both of our examples above may have no idea what “that” is but if “that” is the case, as it certainly is sometimes, more power to them, I mean, women.

As for men, especially young men who apart from finding women attractive and desirable don’t have the faintest idea of a remote clue as to what women are about, let’s just hope that someday they’ll be able to open that proverbial book about women and find everything out.

Yes, all joking aside, let’s hope they’ll open the book and read it so that hopefully, someday, women will become, like, an open book to them.

An open book, you see, is the opposite of a closed book. With an open book, you can view its content and therefore understand it. With a closed book, you cannot see what it’s about and therefore remain mystified.

All right?

All right, here are media examples of the metaphorical “closed book”, something mysterious, incomprehensible, unfathomable:

1. Peddling around France on a glorious Summer’s day might be the holiday of choice for a variety of folk, but come June and July the roads are taken over by the peloton, sprinters, climbers and breakaway riders as cyclists and cycling teams from around the world compete in the most famous and revered bicycle road race in the world - the Tour de France. In its one hundredth year in 2013 Cyanide Studios and Focus Home Interactive have released a variant on their Pro Cycling series to allow those of us with an interest in the sport but a little less ability to see if they can take a stage win, become King of the Mountains or even ride into Paris wearing the famous yellow jersey.