Saturday, April 17, 2010

Strapped for cash in the mid-1950s, Kurt Vonnegut took a job at Sports Illustrated, though he “didn’t care or know squat about sports.”
They asked him to write a piece about a racehorse that had jumped the fence at the local track.
He fed a page into his typewriter, stared at it for several hours, typed “The horse jumped over the fucking fence” and left.
StumbleUpon is making this day suck a bit less. 

4 comments:

  1. Kurt Vonnegut is always made of win.

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  2. I'm reading "Cat's Cradle" still.

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  3. I read "Breakfast of Champions" and I feel like I should re-read it because I'm not sure I fully understood it. It was pretty good, though.

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