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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... kind of girl who'd sleep with anyone . " What an obituary : the deceased was the kind of girl who would sleep with anyone . " Why are you telling me this ? " Why indeed ? I had no idea . " Very well , " she picked up where I trailed off ...
... kind of girl who'd sleep with anyone . " What an obituary : the deceased was the kind of girl who would sleep with anyone . " Why are you telling me this ? " Why indeed ? I had no idea . " Very well , " she picked up where I trailed off ...
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... kind of guy when sober . Everyone thought of him as a nice - enough , regular - if - not - exactly - sharp kind of guy . He thought so too . That's why he drank . Because it seemed that with alcohol in his system , he could more fully ...
... kind of guy when sober . Everyone thought of him as a nice - enough , regular - if - not - exactly - sharp kind of guy . He thought so too . That's why he drank . Because it seemed that with alcohol in his system , he could more fully ...
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... kind . If you heard him play his violin , you'd know that . Sheep hurt my father , and through my father , sheep ... kind word for me . And since I lost my fingers and started going bald , he's done nothing but ridicule me . " " I'm sure ...
... kind . If you heard him play his violin , you'd know that . Sheep hurt my father , and through my father , sheep ... kind word for me . And since I lost my fingers and started going bald , he's done nothing but ridicule me . " " I'm sure ...
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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 |