"Opening the book to read under the flying eaves," one wonders whether, if we find only such strange utterances, such a lyric history, we can do no more than force a smile at the "flirtation with China"?
風簷展書讀，盡是如此的怪世奇談，這般的抒情歷史，我們是不是只有強顏歡笑「逍遣（解）中國」？