While he is undertaking this quest - his mother is apparently happy to let him wander the city streets all day knocking on strangers' doors - Oskar, and the reader, begins to unearth all sorts of other things.
Ha-Levi used this element of the story to suggest that it is not the spontaneous activity of reason that impels human beings to undertake the quest for the true religion but the gift of prophecy or at least a touch of the prophetic faculty (or a knowledge of the revelations of the past).
But in 1428, when the voices pressed her to undertake the quest for which they had been preparing her, they transformed a seemingly undistinguished peasant into a visionary heroine who defied every limitation placed on a woman of the late Middle Ages.
Originally educated as a neuroscientist, he has accumulated a vast knowledge driven by his lifelong interest in fulfilling what the Ancient Greeks identified as the most challenging quest for anyone to undertake, the quest to "know thyself".
The problem with this quest is twofold.
The BLUE-points respond to this quest.
Imaging techniques might help in this quest.
Jason, having undertaken the quest of the fleece, called upon the noblest heroes of Greece to take part in the expedition.
Delusion: The Blue Blade Audience members undertake a quest for a sacred artifact in this interactive adventure.
As Richard Doyle, a professor of English and information sciences and technology at Penn State, writes in his afterword, "When you begin reading the 'Exegesis,' you undertake a quest with no shortcuts or cheat codes".
Two sympathetic protagonists, Charlotte Norbury, who is trying to save her brother from the vampiric sect, and Arthur Howland, a rich young American who wishes to help her, undertake a quest that takes them across Europe.
