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 83
... give her my best . And be sure to give J my best too . Have a beer for me . That's one . The other favor is maybe a bit odd . I'm enclosing a photo . A picture of sheep . I'd like you to put it somewhere , I don't care where , but ...
... give her my best . And be sure to give J my best too . Have a beer for me . That's one . The other favor is maybe a bit odd . I'm enclosing a photo . A picture of sheep . I'd like you to put it somewhere , I don't care where , but ...
Page 146
... give him a flea bath every so often . You can get flea shampoo at any pet shop . After his bath , you should dry him off with a towel and give him a good brushing , then last of all a once - over with a hair dryer . Otherwise he'll ...
... give him a flea bath every so often . You can get flea shampoo at any pet shop . After his bath , you should dry him off with a towel and give him a good brushing , then last of all a once - over with a hair dryer . Otherwise he'll ...
Page 283
... Gives me the creeps even now . " " And for what in return ? " " Things far too good for the likes of me . Not that the ... Give your body over to it and everything goes . Con- sciousness , values , emotions , pain , everything . Gone ...
... Gives me the creeps even now . " " And for what in return ? " " Things far too good for the likes of me . Not that the ... Give your body over to it and everything goes . Con- sciousness , values , emotions , pain , everything . Gone ...
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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 |