His lips protrude like a child's, and the thick lines on his big-featured brow, more reminiscent of an aggressive businessman than a man of letters, vanish. "The critic Wang Teh-wei once said that the symbolism in Hai Dong Qing was extremely complex, and that your literary style was elaborate to the point of being contrived.
點了一瓶海尼根，紳士喝的啤酒，李永平思索著，圓圓的嘴嘟得像個孩子，化解了文學家眉眼間少有的粗獷線條。「王德威曾評你的《海東青》象徵繁麗複雜，經營文字太過用功，卻產生過猶不及的現象，成為一種新窠臼。