The digressions of V., written for his own fun and that of his friends (1910)
Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923 · Boston, New York, Houghton Mifflin Co. · leaf 355
those serious efforts which so often turned outfailures. As a boy, I commenced with miniature theatres, fast-modelsailing-boats, camera-oscuras, kites, rat-traps, rearing rabbits,— who attended to that business so well that the question soonbecame one of the disposal of rabbits, — and machines run… … could not lift himself by his own boot-straps, and that it all ledto the reducing friction to a minimum. So that, going over onesperpetual motion now and then, while not solving the problem,was a good exercise for the mind. Now I see that the only perpet-ual motion is the great Will back of…
Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923 · Artists
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