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 86
... whole time . Navy - blue summer suit , not a wrinkle . Starched white shirt , just back from the cleaners . Shiny black shoes . I looked up at the ceiling of the car and puffed on a cigarette . I made mental lists of all the songs the ...
... whole time . Navy - blue summer suit , not a wrinkle . Starched white shirt , just back from the cleaners . Shiny black shoes . I looked up at the ceiling of the car and puffed on a cigarette . I made mental lists of all the songs the ...
Page 88
... whole mile there was packed with gravestone rows of tall buildings . " Used to be water over there , " I said . " Right , " said J. " Went swimming there a lot . " " Yeah , " said J , bringing a generic lighter up to the cigarette at ...
... whole mile there was packed with gravestone rows of tall buildings . " Used to be water over there , " I said . " Right , " said J. " Went swimming there a lot . " " Yeah , " said J , bringing a generic lighter up to the cigarette at ...
Page 133
... whole time she listened , yawning occa- sionally . " So when do you leave ? " " Leave ? " " You have to find the sheep , don't you ? " I looked up at her , the pull - ring of my second beer still on my finger . " I'm not going anywhere ...
... whole time she listened , yawning occa- sionally . " So when do you leave ? " " Leave ? " " You have to find the sheep , don't you ? " I looked up at her , the pull - ring of my second beer still on my finger . " I'm not going anywhere ...
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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 |