Kurt Vonnegut
A Sports Illustrated exerpt about Kurt Vonnegut:
He was an SI man! This from his son Mark Vonnegut's introduction to Armageddon in Retrospect, a collection of unpublished pieces by his father: "He was not good at being an employee. Back in the mid-1950s, he was employed by Sports Illustrated, briefly. He reported to work, was asked to write a short piece on a racehorse that had jumped over a fence and tried to run away. Kurt stared at the blank piece of paper all morning and then typed, 'The horse jumped over the f------ fence,'' and walked out, self-employed again.' ''
Inspiring.
3 comments:
You should get a tattoo that says "the horse jumped over the fucking fence!" We all should
I think that sentence is the secret to the meaning of life.
EPICAC was in our reading book this semester and I saved it for the end, just in case I had time for them to read more of his stories. Hard to tell how they translate...
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