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 139
... feel threat- ened about ? Next to nothing . I broke up with my wife , I plan to quit my job today , my apartment is ... feeling good again . A pleasant September Sunday after all . Summer had faded to a distant memory almost beyond ...
... feel threat- ened about ? Next to nothing . I broke up with my wife , I plan to quit my job today , my apartment is ... feeling good again . A pleasant September Sunday after all . Summer had faded to a distant memory almost beyond ...
Page 233
... feel- ing of doom that first came over my body , then went on to strike a warning signal in my head . The sort of feeling you get when you're crossing a river and all of a sudden you sink your feet into mud of a different temperature ...
... feel- ing of doom that first came over my body , then went on to strike a warning signal in my head . The sort of feeling you get when you're crossing a river and all of a sudden you sink your feet into mud of a different temperature ...
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... feeling lonely without her , but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation . Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling . It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off . I washed the dishes ...
... feeling lonely without her , but the fact that I could feel lonely at all was consolation . Loneliness wasn't such a bad feeling . It was like the stillness of the pin oak after the little birds had flown off . I washed the dishes ...
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References to this book
The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |