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 47
... walked over to the center of the room , and dropped myself down on the plush sky- blue Swedish sofa . I extracted a filter - tip Pall Mall from the special visitors ' cigarette case and lit up with the heavy tabletop lighter . " So ...
... walked over to the center of the room , and dropped myself down on the plush sky- blue Swedish sofa . I extracted a filter - tip Pall Mall from the special visitors ' cigarette case and lit up with the heavy tabletop lighter . " So ...
Page 91
... walked their dogs , high school kids hung around their motorbikes , smoking cigarettes . Your typical early summer evening . I stopped into a liquor store , bought two cans of beer , and car- ried them in a paper bag down to the sea ...
... walked their dogs , high school kids hung around their motorbikes , smoking cigarettes . Your typical early summer evening . I stopped into a liquor store , bought two cans of beer , and car- ried them in a paper bag down to the sea ...
Page 236
... walked , we seemed to make no progress . I couldn't get any feeling for the distance . Come to think of it , this was the first level ground we'd walked on , so even things far off seemed within reach . A flock of birds crossed the ...
... walked , we seemed to make no progress . I couldn't get any feeling for the distance . Come to think of it , this was the first level ground we'd walked on , so even things far off seemed within reach . A flock of birds crossed the ...
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The Emerging Monoculture: Assimilation and the Model Minority Eric Mark Kramer No preview available - 2003 |