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 271
... Living in two separate worlds , we still thought about the same things . Just like Groucho and Harpo in Duck Soup . Behind me the living room was reflected in the mirror . Or else it was his living room behind him . The living room ...
... Living in two separate worlds , we still thought about the same things . Just like Groucho and Harpo in Duck Soup . Behind me the living room was reflected in the mirror . Or else it was his living room behind him . The living room ...
Page 272
... living room in the mirror , then looked over at the living room . The Sheep Man was on the sofa , lazily gazing out at the snow . I checked the Sheep Man in the mirror . But there wasn't any Sheep Man in the mirror ! There was nobody in ...
... living room in the mirror , then looked over at the living room . The Sheep Man was on the sofa , lazily gazing out at the snow . I checked the Sheep Man in the mirror . But there wasn't any Sheep Man in the mirror ! There was nobody in ...
Page 274
... living someone else's life . After an extremely long time , this began to match up with my own life . A curious overlap this , my own life as someone else's . It was improbable that such a person as myself could even be living . I went ...
... living someone else's life . After an extremely long time , this began to match up with my own life . A curious overlap this , my own life as someone else's . It was improbable that such a person as myself could even be living . I went ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |