Patrick had undertaken a quest at which she was far more likely to fail than to succeed.
"Hammered" by "Woman Before an Aquarium," Hampl undertook a quest for what immediately became her personal holy grail, a vessel bearing not the blood of Christ but its secular equivalent, as ineffable, mystical and impossible as transubstantiated wine.
A trio of renegade rodsmiths undertake a quest to net Earth's trickiest catches, with the first episode taking the assembly of anglers to British Columbia in search of the elusive Coho salmon.
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.
In others, an individual has a vision or undertakes a vision quest to identify his alter ego.
It is also apparent in Jonathan Safran Foer's Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2006), where a young boy undertakes a secret quest, in order to process memories of his father.
