A skilled worker can make the floor smooth and the walls perpendicular, but he cannot create a masterful design without help from a quality architect. If we want a strong and facile brush, we should use strong hairs, such as rabbit whiskers, hairs from an ox's ear and sable hairs, as materials for, say, three inner tiers, and cover them with a fourth and fifth tier of weasel hairs.
苦思數日，李志仁猛然發現自己犯了一個極大的疏忽：莊慕老、王壯為、江兆申寫的都是硬筆書法，用起純狼毫筆，自能盡情揮毫；而台靜農擅寫軟筆書法，慣用長鋒羊毫，「醉葫蘆」自然就派不上用場了。