Back then Chen Fang-ming chose to stand amid the ranks of those championing nativism. When he met his former teacher Yu 20 years later, he recalls, "I knew that things could never return to the way they had been, when the master poet and I would read poetry together.
當時陳芳明選擇了站在鄉土文學的隊伍，20 年後師生重逢，「我知道我再也回不去那年與詩人一起捧讀詩稿的時光。