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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... 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 the star on its back . " So it was ... WILD SHEEP CHASE 121.
... 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 the star on its back . " So it was ... WILD SHEEP CHASE 121.
Page 195
... then went out and saw a movie . In the movie there were a lot of men and women having intercourse too . Nothing wrong with watching others hav- ing intercourse , after all . PART EIGHT A WILD SHEEP CHASE , III 29 The A WILD SHEEP CHASE 195.
... then went out and saw a movie . In the movie there were a lot of men and women having intercourse too . Nothing wrong with watching others hav- ing intercourse , after all . PART EIGHT A WILD SHEEP CHASE , III 29 The A WILD SHEEP CHASE 195.
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... sheep quarrel ? " asked my girlfriend . " You bet they quarrel , " said the caretaker . " It's the same with any animal that goes around in groups . Each and every sheep has a pecking order in the sheep society . If ... WILD SHEEP CHASE 229.
... sheep quarrel ? " asked my girlfriend . " You bet they quarrel , " said the caretaker . " It's the same with any animal that goes around in groups . Each and every sheep has a pecking order in the sheep society . If ... WILD SHEEP CHASE 229.
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |