Part One

“The policeman must oft follow the precept of the ‘bakadori’⁠—those fool-birds who, though they know disaster awaits them at the hands and clubs of the beachcombers, brave ignominious death to bury their eggs in the sandy shore.⁠ ⁠… So the policeman. All Nippon should not deter him from hatching the egg of thoroughness.”

From A Thousand Leaves,
by Tamaka Hiero