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 109
... photograph you used in your bulletin . ” For a direct blowup of the photograph without using the negative , the image was surprisingly clear . Probably some special technology . " As far as we know , the photo is one you personally came ...
... photograph you used in your bulletin . ” For a direct blowup of the photograph without using the negative , the image was surprisingly clear . Probably some special technology . " As far as we know , the photo is one you personally came ...
Page 191
... photograph is ? " I asked . " The homestead where I lived for nine years . I raised sheep there . Appropriated right after the war by the American Forces , and when they repatriated the place to me I sold it to some rich man as a ...
... photograph is ? " I asked . " The homestead where I lived for nine years . I raised sheep there . Appropriated right after the war by the American Forces , and when they repatriated the place to me I sold it to some rich man as a ...
Page 236
... photograph . The depth of the actual place seemed artificial . Less my being there than the sense that the scene had been temporarily thrown together in order to match the photograph . I leaned on the gate and heaved a sigh . This was ...
... photograph . The depth of the actual place seemed artificial . Less my being there than the sense that the scene had been temporarily thrown together in order to match the photograph . I leaned on the gate and heaved a sigh . This was ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |