A Wild Sheep ChaseIt begins simply enough: A twenty-something advertising executive receives a postcard from a friend, and casually appropriates the image for an insurance company's advertisement. What he doesn't realize is that included in the pastoral scene is a mutant sheep with a star on its back, and in using this photo he has unwittingly captured the attention of a man in black who offers a menacing ultimatum: find the sheep or face dire consequences. Thus begins a surreal and elaborate quest that takes our hero from the urban haunts of Tokyo to the remote and snowy mountains of northern Japan, where he confronts not only the mythological sheep, but the confines of tradition and the demons deep within himself. |
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Page 116
... Boss himself . So far , the Boss has never spoken a word about this to anyone , myself included , and it is doubtful he ever will . " When he finished talking , the man cleared his throat . I had lost all track of how much time had ...
... Boss himself . So far , the Boss has never spoken a word about this to anyone , myself included , and it is doubtful he ever will . " When he finished talking , the man cleared his throat . I had lost all track of how much time had ...
Page 121
... Boss's hallucinations . To put it in numerical terms , sheep figured in approximately eighty percent of his hallucina- tions , or in four out of five hallucinations . And not just any sheep . It was this chestnut - colored sheep with ...
... Boss's hallucinations . To put it in numerical terms , sheep figured in approximately eighty percent of his hallucina- tions , or in four out of five hallucinations . And not just any sheep . It was this chestnut - colored sheep with ...
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... Boss's Will . " " Sounds like animal crackers , " I said . The man ignored my comment . " Very probably the sheep found its way into the Boss . That would have been in 1936. And for the next forty years or so , the sheep remained lodged ...
... Boss's Will . " " Sounds like animal crackers , " I said . The man ignored my comment . " Very probably the sheep found its way into the Boss . That would have been in 1936. And for the next forty years or so , the sheep remained lodged ...
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References to this book
The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |