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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... better , isn't it ? " " Sure . " " Then you ought to show them , ” I said . “ No need to go out of your way to put up with such dull times . " Dead serious , she stared me and said , " You don't understand anything . " For sure , there ...
... better , isn't it ? " " Sure . " " Then you ought to show them , ” I said . “ No need to go out of your way to put up with such dull times . " Dead serious , she stared me and said , " You don't understand anything . " For sure , there ...
Page 76
... better that way . For me and for you . Probably we'd have been better off born in nineteenth - century Russia . I'd have been Prince So - and - so and you Count Such - and- such . We'd go hunting together , fight , be rivals in love ...
... better that way . For me and for you . Probably we'd have been better off born in nineteenth - century Russia . I'd have been Prince So - and - so and you Count Such - and- such . We'd go hunting together , fight , be rivals in love ...
Page 78
... better not . Otherwise , I might end up opening the wrong door some day , only to find I can't back out . Whatever , if the door's been opened , I better make a go of it . I mean I can't keep buying my kicks for the rest of my life ...
... better not . Otherwise , I might end up opening the wrong door some day , only to find I can't back out . Whatever , if the door's been opened , I better make a go of it . I mean I can't keep buying my kicks for the rest of my life ...
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Ainu youth Asahikawa ashtray asked ballpoint pen beer better birch Border collie Boss caretaker chaise longue chauffeur cigarette clock coffee cold cyst dark desk Dolphin Hotel door drank ears everything eyes face feel fingers girlfriend glass gone grandfather clock guess hair hand head Hokkaido it'd J's Bar Japan jeep Johnny Rivers Junitaki Junitaki-cho killer frost lighter living looked mean minutes months morning mountains never nodded okay opened partner pasture photograph pocket probably pulled rain Rat's road Sapporo seemed Sheep Professor Shinjuku Station silence sleep smoke snow sofa someone sound stared stood sure talk tell 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 |