Fifty years on, most of the protagonists are dead, so they can't be called to provide evidence and there's no way of knowing to what degree to which Lu's memory is "selective," or which things, both good and bad, have become exaggerated by the passage of time.
走過這五十多年的彎曲路，當事人多已作古，求證無門，陸著在潛意識裡包含多少「選擇性的記憶」，哪些事情給時間之網沖刷得更美或更醜，恐怕連作者和讀者都無法確知。