Word: quester
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...there was the Bobby who all his life was a boyishly relentless self-improver, a quester. A friend remembered him lugging around a heavy anthology of Western literature "like a football." Kennedy said the only writing he liked in it was the story about the French poet Gerard de Nerval, who walked with a lobster on a leash. Someone asked Nerval why he did that. Nerval replied, "He doesn't bark, and he knows the secrets of the deep...
...film revolves around Julie, played excellently by the lovely Juliette Binoche, who finds herself alone after her husband and daughter die in a tragic car crash. Her husband Patrice (Hugues Quester), a world famous composer, was in the midst of writing a concerto celebrating the unification of Europe when he was killed. A reporter covering Patrice's death mentions the rumor that it is actually Julie who composed her husband's works. After the tragedy, Julie attempts to retreat from society, moving to a seedy section of Paris. She sells most of her material belongings, using the money to provide...
...party she meets Natacha (Florence Darrell), who invites her to spend the weekend at her house, so her father lgor (Hugues Quester) can meet Jeanne. Natacha's father is involved with Eve (Eloise Bennett), a girl his daughter's age whom Natacha despises. Rohmer trails this quartet of actors for a week and the audience observes them eating, and fighting, telling stories, discussing philosophy, and gradually getting involved in each other's lives...
...mirrored conference rooms, gathering one radiant week for a five-day seminar called "Our Myth-Body to Live By." The topic is vintage Esalen: an attempt to marry impulses physical and metaphysical. So too are the seminar leaders: Joseph Campbell, mythologer supreme and godfather to many a '60s quester, and Chungliang Al Huang, a Chinese-born master of Tai Chi. For six hours each day, the octogenarian Campbell sits cross-legged on the floor and improvises passionate lectures about Navajo paintings, the dangers of spiritual feudalism and why Hindu elephants are "clouds condemned to earth." Whenever the talk gets...
...roundheel quester from America gave a sigh of discovery. "Ah." Long pause...