But Hsieh's tortuous journey really did give him the resolve to embark on the "lonely but rewarding" path of literature. He published the story of his journey, Circling a Mountain, in 2008 and is now studying in the graduate program in Taiwanese literature at National Tsing Hwa University.
現在的謝旺霖，正在清大台灣文學研究所攻讀，一趟絕境逢生之旅，果真堅定了他往「孤獨卻豐實」的文學道路前行。