“Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.”
Work
It 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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Haruki Murakami
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“Time really is one big continuous cloth, no? We habitually cut out pieces of time to fit us, so we tend to fool ourselves into thinking that time is our size, but it really goes on and on.”
“Sometimes I get real lonely sleeping with you.”
“Most everything you think you know about me is nothing more than memories.”
“My biggest fault is that the faults I was born with grow bigger each year.”
“Generally, people who are good at writing letters have no need to write letters. They've got plenty of life to lead inside their own context.”
“Time was dead in the air.”
“We returned to the hotel and had intercourse. I like that word intercourse. It poses only a limited range of possibilities.”