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In Search of a Sheep As I recall it, dawn in Tokyo greets dozens of drunken stragglers who missed the last train home the night before. Pushing their way out of the station against the first wave of morning commuters, they find that the sun has risen as if by magic. Shopkeepers raise the corrugated metal screens that cover their glass storefronts, rather like eyelids opening. Housewives in aprons and plastic slippers sweep their front steps with rush brooms. The freshness of the scene strikes the spent reveler as more than a little distasteful. On such a morning in 1978, the protagonist of A Wild Sheep Chase returns home from the funeral of an old girlfriend, a few glasses of whiskey between the austere ceremony and his front door. His wife waits inside with the papers to finalize their divorce. As a newly eligible bachelor, our man quickly takes up with an ear model cum call girl cum publishing assistant whom he meets through his job as an advertising executive. When revealed, her perfectly formed ears transform this new girlfriend into a stunning beauty with a well-developed sixth sense. All in all, late 1978 is rather rough for the poor guy. First, the small advertising firm that he runs with a college friend comes