"Space for freedom and independent thought," is what Wu Chin-fa remembers. In the oppressive period of the 1970s, when he went from the Pingtung countryside to the city to study, it was the first time in his life that he had faced a situation where he could argue out loud with a teacher in class.
「自由及獨立思考的空間吧」，吳錦發回憶，在民國六十年間那個「苦悶的年代」，從屏東鄉下到都市念書的他，在課堂上生平第一次面對面的跟老師大聲辯論。