A Toss Leads to a Quest Irabu's road back to baseball began with a bit of serendipity.
But Ruby's often to be found, as she is in FLAMETHROWER (Three Rivers, paper, $14), at her shrink's, where her discovery of a human leg in a fish tank leads to a quest that takes her, as all her bizarre quests do, to the racetracks and stables where she truly comes alive.
That led to a quest for more noise, and a different, more interesting noise, which led to the Marshall amp – the black boxes stacked on stages ever since, making people with leather jackets shake their heads one way (with approval), and otologists and neurotologists in white coats shake theirs another way (disapprovingly).
She was also taking a class I was teaching in which I emphasized that faith leads to a quest, and part of that questing was questioning.
This initiated informal discussion among nurses of the ward by creating a cognitive dissonance which led to a quest for more information about the new handover.
Understanding the molecular pathways of GISTs and the identification of potential new molecular targets led to a quest to replicate the success of imatinib in non-GIST soft tissue sarcomas (STS).
Proust has moved from avant-garde to mainstream, perhaps because he pioneered in the exploration of questions that have come to preoccupy our culture -- childhood affect, social deception, sexual obsession, sadomasochism, possessive jealousy, the wiles of memory and the ways in which these all lead to a passionate quest to know.
Strauss's dismissal of the reasoned perfectibility of society did not, as many have claimed, lead to a belief that the quest for justice should not be attempted.
The chaotic shooting of an innocent Brazilian electrician by anti-terrorism officers in 2005 led to a long quest for the scalp of London's top copper (he eventually quit in September).
