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 69
... side of the original structure . The intention wasn't bad , but the ef- fect was unpalatable . Like serving sherbet and broccoli on the same silver platter . This unhappy combination stood untouched for several decades until someone ...
... side of the original structure . The intention wasn't bad , but the ef- fect was unpalatable . Like serving sherbet and broccoli on the same silver platter . This unhappy combination stood untouched for several decades until someone ...
Page 92
... side , the piles of soil hauled down from the hills for landfill loomed harsh and gray next to the areas which , not a part of the grand scheme , had been overtaken by quick - rooting weeds . On the other side , stupid little ...
... side , the piles of soil hauled down from the hills for landfill loomed harsh and gray next to the areas which , not a part of the grand scheme , had been overtaken by quick - rooting weeds . On the other side , stupid little ...
Page 212
... side to side . The seat coverings had lost their pile and the cushions were like month - old bread . An air of doom , mixed with toilet and kerosene smells , filled the car . I spent ten minutes trying to raise a window to let in some ...
... side to side . The seat coverings had lost their pile and the cushions were like month - old bread . An air of doom , mixed with toilet and kerosene smells , filled the car . I spent ten minutes trying to raise a window to let in some ...
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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 |