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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... half - living , " she said briskly . " The other half is still untapped somewhere . " " Hmm . " " In that sense , you're not unlike me . I'm sitting on my ears , and you've got only half of you that's really living . Sure seems that way ...
... half - living , " she said briskly . " The other half is still untapped somewhere . " " Hmm . " " In that sense , you're not unlike me . I'm sitting on my ears , and you've got only half of you that's really living . Sure seems that way ...
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... half of September , the sheep are brought back down . " " Would you happen to know when it is that the sheep are up there ? " " It varies from year to year , but generally speaking it's from the beginning of May to the latter half of ...
... half of September , the sheep are brought back down . " " Would you happen to know when it is that the sheep are up there ? " " It varies from year to year , but generally speaking it's from the beginning of May to the latter half of ...
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... half of his face , his matching gloves , and socks , all were black . There was a zipper from neck to crotch . On his chest was a pocket , also zippered , from which he ex- tracted his cigarettes and matches . The Sheep Man put a Seven ...
... half of his face , his matching gloves , and socks , all were black . There was a zipper from neck to crotch . On his chest was a pocket , also zippered , from which he ex- tracted his cigarettes and matches . The Sheep Man put a Seven ...
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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 |