I often have thought how sorry and helpless the people in the first or second decade of the next century would feel if the last Taiwan aborigines with facial tattoos passed away and no record was left of them.
我常想，若是在西元二○○○年，或是二○○一年，全台灣最後一個文面老人逝世，我們卻全然沒有他們的紀錄，那時的人，會不會有一份很深、無可挽回的遺憾？