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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... closed the door . He climbed into the driver's seat and closed the door after himself . All without any more sound than flipping over a play- ing card . And sitting in this limo , compared to my fifteen - year - old Volkswagen Beetle I ...
... closed the door . He climbed into the driver's seat and closed the door after himself . All without any more sound than flipping over a play- ing card . And sitting in this limo , compared to my fifteen - year - old Volkswagen Beetle I ...
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... pocket , but in the end merely put it back . Engraved in the center of the lighter and cigarette case was an intricately patterned emblem . A sheep emblem . A sheep ? I shook my head and closed my A WILD SHEEP CHASE 65.
... pocket , but in the end merely put it back . Engraved in the center of the lighter and cigarette case was an intricately patterned emblem . A sheep emblem . A sheep ? I shook my head and closed my A WILD SHEEP CHASE 65.
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... closed his eyes a few seconds for the first time , saying nothing for a moment . Then : " If I might offer my hypothesis - a hypothesis and nothing more , forget I ever said a thing if it does nothing for you - I cannot help but feel ...
... closed his eyes a few seconds for the first time , saying nothing for a moment . Then : " If I might offer my hypothesis - a hypothesis and nothing more , forget I ever said a thing if it does nothing for you - I cannot help but feel ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |