Issue 14 • 2011

 

 

The Hopeless Pursuit
of Perpetual Motion

 

Perpetual motion may induce those who still believe in reaching this ignis fatuus. 

 

 

by J. Crouse

 

 

 

 

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Works by J. Crouse have appeared in The Columbia Review and in E·ratio Issue 10