CHAPTER 10
The Project Pioneer
“It’s all so simple, Anjiin-san, just change your concept of the world . . .”
—So said the Japanese lady to her confused British lover, shipwrecked in the novel Shogun
In his introduction to Winnie-the-Pooh, A. A. Milne wrote that “There are some people who begin the Zoo at the beginning, called WAYIN, and walk as quickly as they can past every cage until they get to the one called WAYOUT, but the nicest people go straight to the animal they love the most, and stay there.”75 Without claiming to be a nice person, I must admit that this is the organizational beast I love the most—at least to write about, if not to work in. I don’t need that much excitement, thank you.76
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