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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... head , " she asked , " but the feeling , right ? " " Right . " " Ever have that feeling before ? " I gave it some thought , then shook my head . " No , I guess not . " " Which means it's all on account of my ears . " " I couldn't swear ...
... head , " she asked , " but the feeling , right ? " " Right . " " Ever have that feeling before ? " I gave it some thought , then shook my head . " No , I guess not . " " Which means it's all on account of my ears . " " I couldn't swear ...
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... head of sheep . " 1939. Sheep Professor marries . 128 head of sheep . " 1942. Eldest son born ( present owner - operator of the Dolphin Hotel ) . 181 head of sheep . " 1946. American Occupation Forces appropriate Sheep Pro- fessor's ...
... head of sheep . " 1939. Sheep Professor marries . 128 head of sheep . " 1942. Eldest son born ( present owner - operator of the Dolphin Hotel ) . 181 head of sheep . " 1946. American Occupation Forces appropriate Sheep Pro- fessor's ...
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... head to toe , without warp- ing , almost pristinely . I stood there and looked at myself . Nothing new . I was me ... head and pinched my ear with my left hand . The me in the mirror did exactly the same . Ap- parently he had filed the ...
... head to toe , without warp- ing , almost pristinely . I stood there and looked at myself . Nothing new . I was me ... head and pinched my ear with my left hand . The me in the mirror did exactly the same . Ap- parently he had filed the ...
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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
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |