But this pursuit of precision also explains how 37 years passed between the publication of his early Lonely Land and Goddess Incarnate collections and his more recent Thirteen White Chrysanthemums and Rendezvous collections.
正因為字字敲擊，解釋了周公繼詩集《孤獨國》、《還魂草》之後，隔了 37 年才又出詩集《十三朵白菊花》和《約會》的原因。