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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... someone coughed with a dry rasp that sounded like a mummy tapped on the head with a pair of tongs . Each time the train pulled into a station , someone got off . Whenever someone got off , the conductor also got off to collect the ...
... someone coughed with a dry rasp that sounded like a mummy tapped on the head with a pair of tongs . Each time the train pulled into a station , someone got off . Whenever someone got off , the conductor also got off to collect the ...
Page 274
... Someone was trying to break up the frozen globe of the earth with a massive hammer . The hammer struck the earth precisely eight times . But the earth failed to break up . It only cracked a little . Eight o'clock , eight at night . I ...
... Someone was trying to break up the frozen globe of the earth with a massive hammer . The hammer struck the earth precisely eight times . But the earth failed to break up . It only cracked a little . Eight o'clock , eight at night . I ...
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... Someone better open a window . Someone opens a window . Shivering cold . Seagull cries , sharp piercing voices ripping at my flesh . " Remember the name of your cat ? " " Kipper , " I reply . " No , it's not Kipper , " the chauffeur ...
... Someone better open a window . Someone opens a window . Shivering cold . Seagull cries , sharp piercing voices ripping at my flesh . " Remember the name of your cat ? " " Kipper , " I reply . " No , it's not Kipper , " the chauffeur ...
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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
References to this book
The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |