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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... river used to dry up into a sandy bed , leaving only a faintly damp white trail . Years ago , on my walks , I'd trace that trail upstream , searching for where the river had gone . The road by the river had been one of my favorites . I ...
... river used to dry up into a sandy bed , leaving only a faintly damp white trail . Years ago , on my walks , I'd trace that trail upstream , searching for where the river had gone . The road by the river had been one of my favorites . I ...
Page 202
... river gorge . An asshole of a ter- rain for sure . The ground was covered with brush bamboo while huge evergreens spread their roots far and wide . Wolves and elk and bears and muskrats and birds competed in the wilderness for the ...
... river gorge . An asshole of a ter- rain for sure . The ground was covered with brush bamboo while huge evergreens spread their roots far and wide . Wolves and elk and bears and muskrats and birds competed in the wilderness for the ...
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... river stretched forever , muddy brown from the rains . Glinting in the autumn sun , it looked like a spillway of café au lait . An improved road along the river popped in and out of view , and infrequently there'd be a huge truck ...
... river stretched forever , muddy brown from the rains . Glinting in the autumn sun , it looked like a spillway of café au lait . An improved road along the river popped in and out of view , and infrequently there'd be a huge truck ...
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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 |