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 98
... waiting for someone and after a certain time it hardly matters what happens anymore . It could be five years or ten years or one month . It's all the same . " I nodded . She drank half her orange juice . " It was that way when I was ...
... waiting for someone and after a certain time it hardly matters what happens anymore . It could be five years or ten years or one month . It's all the same . " I nodded . She drank half her orange juice . " It was that way when I was ...
Page 211
... waiting room , like most waiting rooms , was deserted and unremarkable . The benches were miserably uncomfortable , the ashtrays swollen with waterlogged cigarette butts , the air stale . On the walls were travel posters and most ...
... waiting room , like most waiting rooms , was deserted and unremarkable . The benches were miserably uncomfortable , the ashtrays swollen with waterlogged cigarette butts , the air stale . On the walls were travel posters and most ...
Page 292
... waiting for you up there . Says you've got a rendezvous at twelve o'clock sharp . " The man and I glanced at our watches simultaneously . Ten- forty . " I had better be going , " the man said . " Must not keep him waiting . You may ride ...
... waiting for you up there . Says you've got a rendezvous at twelve o'clock sharp . " The man and I glanced at our watches simultaneously . Ten- forty . " I had better be going , " the man said . " Must not keep him waiting . You may ride ...
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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 |