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...