Although it has been more than ten years since Huang's last collection of fiction, and in spite of the fact that 37 years separate "Cheng-tsai Gets off the Bus" and "Ticket Window," there is something at the core of Huang's fiction which has not changed.
雖然黃春明已經十幾年沒有出版小說集了，雖然從〈城仔落車〉到〈售票口〉，中間隔了三十七年，但黃春明的文學內在，有些東西竟然從來都沒有改變。