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Mario's boiled-down quest to keep on rescuing Princess Peach across a vast number of games is a simple, easily grasped mission that keeps on driving narratives.
To the rescue (on a Sunday no less) is Cluny Brown Jennifer Joness), a plumber's niece who's been dying to try out her own techniques with hammers and wrenches in a quest to keep English pipelines "flowing properly".
Legend (probably a false legend) has it Iceland was named by some sneaky Vikings who, in a quest to keep it all to themselves, tried to hide the fact that their new settlement was actually a lush, green wonderland worthy of envy from the entire Nordic world.
Meanwhile, in Sacramento, Ms. Hancock has begun a quixotic quest to keep California voters from weighing in on whether online retailers should be required to collect sales tax.
"The fact is, a massive amount of paper has been wasted by defendant in a quixotic quest to keep much of the plaintiffs' case from the jury," Judge McMahon wrote.
Nancy's error seems to have been that she always focussed on the day, in a ceaseless quest to keep peace in the home she shared with the hypersensitive, controlling, increasingly hostile stranger who was her son.
A moment's reflection would have suggested to him that this was unlikely, but he's the sort of kid who has every kind of sense except common sense, and, anyway, he needs a heroic quest to keep himself from falling apart.
What was left, and now feeds national anger, was a hard quest to keep house, habits and hope intact while the now bailed-out fat cats who'd invented securitized mortgages sloped off into the sunset, and veterans, scarred from faraway wars, limped back to the "homeland," once just home.
