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 85
... Train early one Tuesday . A white short - sleeved sports shirt , green cotton pants worn through at the knees , white tennis shoes , no luggage . I'd even forgotten to shave after getting up that morn- ing . It was the first time I'd ...
... Train early one Tuesday . A white short - sleeved sports shirt , green cotton pants worn through at the knees , white tennis shoes , no luggage . I'd even forgotten to shave after getting up that morn- ing . It was the first time I'd ...
Page 212
... train sounded its whistle . A few minutes before departure time , she returned with a bag of apples . We ate them for lunch , then boarded the train . The train had surely seen better days . Weak portions of the floorboards were buckled ...
... train sounded its whistle . A few minutes before departure time , she returned with a bag of apples . We ate them for lunch , then boarded the train . The train had surely seen better days . Weak portions of the floorboards were buckled ...
Page 294
... train started moving . After three minutes , in the direction of the conical peak , a column of black smoke was slowly rising . I stared at it until the train cut a curve to the right and the smoke was out of sight . EPILOGUE It's all ...
... train started moving . After three minutes , in the direction of the conical peak , a column of black smoke was slowly rising . I stared at it until the train cut a curve to the right and the smoke was out of sight . EPILOGUE It's all ...
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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 |