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 77
... towns I've seen . Not the town where I was born , but different other towns . There really are a lot of different other towns in the world . Each with its own specific features , incomprehensible things that attract me . Which is why I ...
... towns I've seen . Not the town where I was born , but different other towns . There really are a lot of different other towns in the world . Each with its own specific features , incomprehensible things that attract me . Which is why I ...
Page 214
... town . Next came an empty lot under a thicket of weeds that could make you break out in hives up to your shoulder , in the center of which were the remains of two old cars left out to the elements . Both cars were missing tires , their ...
... town . Next came an empty lot under a thicket of weeds that could make you break out in hives up to your shoulder , in the center of which were the remains of two old cars left out to the elements . Both cars were missing tires , their ...
Page 218
... town dying ... ' " What will happen if the town dies ? " " What will happen ? Nobody knows . They'll all just run away before that , not wanting to know . If the population falls below one thousand - which is well within the realm of ...
... town dying ... ' " What will happen if the town dies ? " " What will happen ? Nobody knows . They'll all just run away before that , not wanting to know . If the population falls below one thousand - which is well within the realm of ...
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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 |