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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... hand , but how does that extend to his putting the clamps on a life insurance company's P.R. bulletin ? That didn't even pass through the hands of any major rep . That was a direct contract . " My partner coughed , then drank down the ...
... hand , but how does that extend to his putting the clamps on a life insurance company's P.R. bulletin ? That didn't even pass through the hands of any major rep . That was a direct contract . " My partner coughed , then drank down the ...
Page 254
... hand the Sheep Man pulled at the fingers of his black right glove , one after the other . After a number of tugs , the glove slipped off , revealing a flaking blackened hand . Small but fleshy , an old burn scar from the base of his ...
... hand the Sheep Man pulled at the fingers of his black right glove , one after the other . After a number of tugs , the glove slipped off , revealing a flaking blackened hand . Small but fleshy , an old burn scar from the base of his ...
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... hand against my cheek . The face my hand felt in the dark wasn't my own , I didn't think . It was the face of another that had taken the shape of my face . But I couldn't remember the details . Everything - names , sensations , places ...
... hand against my cheek . The face my hand felt in the dark wasn't my own , I didn't think . It was the face of another that had taken the shape of my face . But I couldn't remember the details . Everything - names , sensations , places ...
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Ainu youth Asahikawa ashtray asked ballpoint pen beer better birch Boss caretaker chaise longue chauffeur cigarette clock clouds coffee cold dark Dolphin Hotel door drank ears everything eyes face feel fingers girlfriend glass gone guess hair hand head Hokkaido it'd jeep Junitaki kids killer frost living looked mean minutes months morning mountains never nodded o'clock okay opened partner pasture photograph pocket probably pulled rain Rat's river road Sapporo Saudi Arabia seemed Sheep Professor Sherlock Holmes Shinjuku Shinjuku Station silence sleep smoke snow sofa someone sound stared Station stood straight sure talk tell Thanks for everything there's things thought Tokyo Tokyo Station took town turned U.S. Army waiting walked watched whiskey whole WILD SHEEP CHASE window winter word
References to this book
The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |