"My eyes aren't what they used to be, especially my left eye, because a rash on my eyelid spread into the eye itself, so now it takes much more effort to write or read," he says. But still he scans three or four newspapers a day, and also keeps an occasional eye on what is coming out of the literary world.
「老了眼睛比較不好，左眼也因為眼皮上的飛蛇（帶狀泡疹）跑到眼睛裡去，現在寫字和看書都比較吃力，」葉石濤說，但他每天還是要看三、四份報紙，不時留意最新出版動態。