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 127
... pocket . By way of compensation , I slipped my Bic disposable into the pocket of the door . " The Boss gave me it a few years ago , " said the chauffeur out of nowhere . " Gave you what ? " " God's telephone number . " I let out a groan ...
... pocket . By way of compensation , I slipped my Bic disposable into the pocket of the door . " The Boss gave me it a few years ago , " said the chauffeur out of nowhere . " Gave you what ? " " God's telephone number . " I let out a groan ...
Page 130
... pocket of my Levi's , tore open the seal , and started to count the stack of ten - thousand - yen notes . It looked more like a deck of cards than a bound packet of new bills . Halfway through , my fingers began to tire . At ninety ...
... pocket of my Levi's , tore open the seal , and started to count the stack of ten - thousand - yen notes . It looked more like a deck of cards than a bound packet of new bills . Halfway through , my fingers began to tire . At ninety ...
Page 140
... pocket . The wad showed no sign of going down no matter how many bills I used . Only I showed signs of wear ... pockets were stuffed with loose change . When I got back to the apartment , I dumped all the change into a glass bowl and ...
... pocket . The wad showed no sign of going down no matter how many bills I used . Only I showed signs of wear ... pockets were stuffed with loose change . When I got back to the apartment , I dumped all the change into a glass bowl and ...
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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 |