Quest

• quest: in Egyptian mythology, when Set murders Osiris, he dismembers his body and scatters the parts across the land; Osiris's wife and sister Isis goes in quest of them so that she can resurrect Osiris

• quest → the quest of this body to find its own toes points to its lack of feeling – because it is either asleep or dead

• in quest → inquest, a judicial inquiry held to establish the cause and circumstances of someone's death

• quest: an expedition in search of some definite object, especially used in medieval romances for religious expeditions in search of the Holy Grail