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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... sense of time . It's like there's this im- possible flat blackbird flapping about over my head and I can't count above three . You'll have to excuse me , but why don't you do the count- ing ? I skipped town without telling anybody and ...
... sense of time . It's like there's this im- possible flat blackbird flapping about over my head and I can't count above three . You'll have to excuse me , but why don't you do the count- ing ? I skipped town without telling anybody and ...
Page 266
... sense , I suppose I had no one to blame . All the same , what gave them the right to treat me like this ? I'd been used , I'd been beaten , I'd been wrung dry . I was ready to get the hell off the mountain , but somehow that offered no ...
... sense , I suppose I had no one to blame . All the same , what gave them the right to treat me like this ? I'd been used , I'd been beaten , I'd been wrung dry . I was ready to get the hell off the mountain , but somehow that offered no ...
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... sense , sharp as ever . Right you are . " I sighed . " But this time around , with all this happening , my sixth sense has been way off . So far off it's embarrassing . And despite the number of hints you all have been giving me ...
... sense , sharp as ever . Right you are . " I sighed . " But this time around , with all this happening , my sixth sense has been way off . So far off it's embarrassing . And despite the number of hints you all have been giving me ...
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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 |