But aren't all great quests folly? El Dorado and the Fountain of Youth and the search for intelligent life in the cosmos-we know what's out there. It's what isn't that truly compels us. Technology may have shrunk the epic journey to a couple of short car rides and regional jet legs-four states and twelve hundred miles traversed in an afternoon-but true quests aren't measured in time or distance anyway, so much as in hope. There are only two good outcomes for a quest like this, the hope of the serendipitous savant-sail for Asia and stumble on America-and the hope of scarecrows and tin men: that you find out you had the thing you sought all along.
( Jess Walter )
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